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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M2154
People
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title
Royal Tiger
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Tigre royal
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1829
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303461

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph on off-white wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 32.6 x 42.5 cm (12 13/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Delacroix [in plate]
  • inscription: lower left corner, black printer's ink, engraved in plate: à Paris, chez H. Gaugain &Ce. rue de vaugirard Nº 34.
  • inscription: lower right below image, black printer's ink, engraved in plate: Delacroix delt. / / / / / / / Imp. lith. de H. Gaugain rue de Vaugirard Nº 2 a Paris.
  • inscription: centered, below image, black printer's ink, engraved in plate, French: TIGRE ROYAL .
  • blind stamp: centered below "Tirgre Royal", blind embossed: [in a triangle:] E / ARDIT / A PARIS

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul J. Sachs, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1922

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/iii
Standard Reference Number
D. 80, R. 310, M. 43

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1922
Object Number
M2154
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 95, repr.
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997

Exhibition History

  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Romantic Prints: David to Courbet, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/01/1980 - 04/30/1980
  • The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
  • Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/15/1998 - 11/01/1998; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 07/17/1999 - 09/26/1999; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 09/30/1999 - 12/10/2000; William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 02/04/2001 - 05/13/2001
  • 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/04/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/31/2019 - 03/04/2020

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