Eugène Delacroix (aka Ferdinand Victor Eugène
Delacroix) (1798–1863)
“Tiger Lying in the Desert” (aka “Tigre Couché dans le Désert”), c1846, printed by Auguste Delâtre (1822–1907) and published in “L'Artiste" in its sixth and final state on 1st January 1870 (plate insert between pages 56 and 57) in Paris. This impression is from the published state in “L'Artiste.”
Etching with roulette,
drypoint, foul-biting, sandpaper scratches and burnishing on wove paper with
full margins as published.
Size: (sheet) 18.2 x 26.7 cm;
(plate) 8.7 x 13.4 cm; (image borderline) 7.4 x 12.5 cm.
Inscribed on plate below the
image borderline: (left) “Eug. Delacroix”; (right) “Imp. Delâtre, Paris.
State vi (of vi), published
state with the printer’s publication details.
Delteil/Strauber 24 vi (Loys
Delteil, Susan Strauber [transl. & rev.] 1997, “Delacroix: The Graphic Work:
A Catalogue Raisonné”, San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, pp. 60–63, cat. no.
24); IFF 22 (Département des Estampes 1930–, “Inventaire du
Fonds Francais Après 1800”, vol. 6, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, p.
122, cat. no. 22).
The British Museum offers the
following description of this print from an earlier state:
“In the centre foreground,
with head on ground and paws in front and to one side; dunes in the background”
(https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1862-1011-682).
See also the descriptions of
this print offered by the Rijksmuseum:
http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.102950 & http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.102949.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
offers the following very interesting insights regarding the time that
Delacroix executed this print:
“Eugène Delacroix worked alongside
the artist Antoine-Louis Barye (1796–1875) on numerous animal studies between
1828–1830 in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. During this time, he studied the
anatomy of cats in detail, even observing their dissections, which resulted in
successful works on paper and paintings depicting tigers in the years to
follow. His contemporary Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) once likened the artist
to his subject matter: ‘He was mellow, soft as velvet, seductive as one of
those tigers whose extraordinary supple grace he excelled in rendering.’"
(https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337305).
Condition: a richly-inked
impression with full margins as published in pristine condition.
I am selling this rare etching
executed by Delacroix (as opposed to prints by other artists after Delacroix’s
design), for the total cost of [deleted] including Express Mail (EMS) postage and
handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes
imposed by some countries.
If you are interested in
purchasing this small etching by Delacroix that not only exemplifies his intense
fascination with tigers, but also reveals in the portrayed animal’s “supple
grace”, something of the artist’s own “mellow, soft as velvet” disposition—as proposed
by Théophile Gautier (see MET description of this print)—please contact me
(oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make
the payment easy.
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