Two Studies of a Lioness

1810–63

Medium	pen and dark brown ink on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 5 3/16 x 7 5/8 in. (13.2 x 19.4 cm)
Object Number	1955.1417
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Two Studies of a Lioness, 1810–63, pen and dark brown ink on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1417

Select Bibliography

Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. (Cat. by Ann Dumas et al.). Oct. 1, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998.. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1986. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. 3rd edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. 4th edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1995. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997. Rathus, Lois Fichner. Understanding Art, 6th ed.. Fort Worth (TX): Harcourt College Publishers. 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

Pierre Andrieu (sale stamp, L. 838, at bottom left of center; sale Paris, May 6–7, 1892);* Edgar Degas (sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, November 15–16, 1918, lot 109, no. 1); Knoedler (bought by Robert Sterling Clark). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.