Lion dévorant un cheval (Lion Devouring a Horse)
Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798 - 1863
1844
Lithograph on chine collé
Image: 6 11/16 × 9 1/4 in. (17 × 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 16 11/16 in. (29.5 × 42.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. and Gula A. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P
PR.950.6.8
Printer
Imprimerie Bertauts, Paris
Publisher
Goupil & Vibert, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Lettered, upper right: 17.; signed and dated, on stone, within image, lower right: Eug. Delacroix / 1844; lettered, lower left margin: Eug. Delacroix pinx. et lith.; lettered, lower right margin: Imp. Bertauts; lettered, lower left: Lion dévorant un cheval; stamped, blindstamp, lower center: LES / ARTISTES / CONTEMPORAINS [Lugt 36b]; Collector's mar, stamped, in brown ink, center: Dr. Jul. Hofmann / Wien [in rectangle; Lugt 1264]
Course History
REL 37, Animal Rights in Religion, Catherine Randall, Winter 2013
ARTH 49, European Art in the Age of Revolution (1750-1850), Katie Hornstein, Fall 2013
REL 37, Animal Rights in Religion, Catherine Randall, Winter 2014
COLT 49, Beasts on the Page, Paul Carranza, Spring 2014
ARTH 50, Romanticism, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2015
ARTH 50, Romanticism, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2015
ARTH 41.03, European Art 1750-1850, Allan Doyle, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
19th Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 12-March 25, 1979.
French Art in the Age of George Sand; Prints from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, January 27-February 24, 1994.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 14, 1996-January 5, 1997.
Nineteenth Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 24-April 23, 1978.
Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23- April 10, 1987.
Prints from the Hood Museum Collection, Friends Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1, 1985-January 12, 1986.
Rembrandt to Manet, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Janury 28-February 13, 1977.
Treasures from the Print Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 3-August 17, 1980.
Provenance
Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1950.
Catalogue Raisonne
Moreau (1873): 56; Delteil: 126; Robaut: 805; Adhémar (1953), IFF: 79
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