Studies of a Crouching Tiger

1810–1863

Medium	pencil on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 5 1/2 x 8 7/8 in. (14 x 22.6 cm)
Object Number	1955.1424
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Studies of a Crouching Tiger, 1810–1863, pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1424

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

Eugène Delacroix (sale stamp, L. 838a, at bottom right; sale Paris, Petit and Tedesco, February 17–29, 1864);* S. Mayer, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1916). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.