FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (1798-1863)

Lot 320
16.10.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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£ 10 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1470319
Lot 320 | FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (1798-1863)
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (1798-1863)
Cheval sauvage terrassé par un tigre
lithograph
1828
on Chine collé paper
a very fine, rich and nuanced impression of the first state (of four)
printing with great contrasts and clarity
an extremely rare proof before lettering and before the edges of the subject were squared off
with margins, in good condition
Image 21,5 x 28,5 cm. (8 ½ x 11 1/8 in.)
Sheet 27 x 36 cm. (10 5/8 x 14 1/8 in.)




Provenance

Galerie Kornfeld, Bern.
Acquired from the above in 1965; then by descent to the present owners.



Literature

A. Robaut, L'oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix 1813-1863 - peintures, dessins, gravures, lithogravures, Paris, 1885, no. 288, p. 80 (another impression ill.).
L. Delteil & S. Strauber, Delacroix - The Graphic Works - A catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1997, no. 77, pp. 196-197 (another impression ill.).
A. G. Yaffe, Prints of Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, March - May 1977, no. 17, p. 24.
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