EUGÈNE DELACROIX (1798-1863)

 
 
TWO STUDIES OF WILD FELINES
 
 
Bears artist's studio stamp l.r. [L.838a]
Bears collector's stamp l.r. [L.911]
Pen & ink on wove paper
10.3 x 13 cm | 4 x 5.1 in
 
 
 
PROVENANCE
 
The artist's studio sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17-29 February 1864, lot 496 (Études de Tigres...)
(Part of lot, sold for 466fr.) [Lugt 838a];
Where acquired by Gustave Arosa (1818-1883), Paris;
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me P. Chevallier, 27-28 February 1884, lot 165 (an album containing many sketches...) (part of lot);
Where acquired by Emile Wauters (1846-1933), Paris [Lugt 911];
His sale, Frederick Muller & Cie, Amserdam, 15-16.06.1926, lot 54 
(Part of lot when presented together, 'Etudes de quatre léopards sur trois feuilles. A la plume. — Haut. de chaque feuille 1o,
larg I3 cent. Monogrammées E. D., marque de la vente après décès du maître.');
Where acquired by Frits Lugt (1884-1970), Paris;
By whom sold either to the dealers Jacques Mathey (Paris) or 'Neuville' [Galerie Neuville & Vivien, Paris], 1947 or afterwards; 
Private collection, Basel
 
 
 
LITERATURE
 
A. Robaut & E. Chesneau, L’œuvre Complet De Eugène Delacroix: Peintures, Dessins, gravures, lithographies, Paris (1885), Supplement, p.459, no. 1858 (Études de Tigres)
 
Frederic Lees, The Art of the Great Masters, London (1913), p.164, fig. 184
 
J.F. Heijbroek, Frits Lugt 1884-1970: Living for Art, Paris (2012), p.199 (not repr.)