Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion

1. Baron Michel de Trétaigne, by 1864 [lent by him to Paris 1864]; his sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 19, 1872, lot 19 as Cavalier arabe attaqué par un lion for 17,000 francs [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Febvre [according to Moreau 1873, Febvre purchased the painting from the Trétaigne sale]. Boucheron, by 1885 [lent to Paris 1885]. R. Austin Robertson (New York?), by 1892; his estate sale American Art Association, New York, April 8, 1892, lot 127 as Arab cavalier attacked by a Lion for $6,350 to Potter Palmer [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts; buyer according to The Critic 1892]; Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago; his widow, Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918); by descent to their sons Honoré and Potter Palmer; given to the Art Institute, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Œuvres d’Eugène Delacroix, 1864, cat. 93.
• Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Eugène Delacroix, March 6–April 15, 1885, cat. 20.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints by Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863, March 20–April 20, 1930, cat. 30.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 243.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 186.
• Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Museum of Art, The Horse: Its Significance in Art, April 20–May 21, 1938, cat. 12.
• New York, M. Knoedler and Company, Gros – Géricault – Delacroix, November 21–December 10, 1938, cat. 49; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, December 15, 1938–January 15, 1939.
• Portland Museum of Art, Eugène Delacroix, January 15–February 14, 1940, no cat.
• Arts Club of Chicago, Origins of Modern Art, April 2–30, 1940, cat. 11.
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Pendulum Swing from Classic To Romantic in French Painting, January 25–February 21, 1942, no cat. no.
• Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Nineteenth Century French Painting, January 18–February 20, 1944, cat. 1.
• New York, Wildenstein & Co., Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863: Loan Exhibition in Aid of the Quaker Emergency Service, October 18–November 18, 1944, cat. 27.

• Théophile Silvestre, Histoire des artistes vivants français et étrangers: Etudes d’après nature (Paris: E. Blanchard, 1857), p. 82.
• Amédée Cantaloube, Eugène Delacroix, l’homme et l’artiste, ses amis et ses critiques (Paris: Dentu, 1864), p. 27.
• Adolphe Moreau, E. Delacroix et son œuvre (Paris: Librairie des bibliophiles, 1873), pp. 104 no. 55, 129 no. 57, 150 no. 46, 279.
• Alfred Robaut, L’Œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix (Paris: Charavay Frères, 1885), p. 283, no. 1067 (ill.).
• “Art Notes,” The Critic: a Weekly Review of Literature and the Arts 17, 530 (1892), p. 230.
• Hippolyte Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d’art faites en France et à l’Etranger pendant les XVIIIme & XIXme siècles, vol. 2 (Paris: Maison d’Editions d’oeuvres artistiques, 1911), p. 422.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 133, no. 819.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 150.
• “The Rearrangement of the Painting Galleries,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 7 (1933), p. 115 (ill.).
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, vol. 1 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1940), under no. 684.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), pp. 122–23.
• Lucien Rudrauf, “De la bête à l’ange: les étapes de la lutte vitale dans la pensée et l’art d’Eugène Delacroix,” Acta Historiae Artium Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 9 (1963), p. 330, fig. 18.

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