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Sketches of Tigers and Men in 16th Century Costume
Eugène Delacroix · 1828–29
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by Dr. Otto Wertheimer (died 1972) to the Art Institute, 1971.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, 1954.
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 39 (ill.).
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 80-81, cat. 37 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 130-131, cat. 58 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Delacroix Themen und Variationen," September 24, 1987-January 10, 1988.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
- New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Delacroix", September 10, 2018 - January 6, 2019, p. 46 (ill.), 47, 284, cat. 61, cat. by Sébastien Allard and Côme Fabre, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), pp. 47-48, no. 2E1 and 2E2.
- Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), p. 65, fig. 26.
- Roberta Smith, "At the Met Museum, the Grand Enigmas of Delacroix," The New York Times (Sept. 13, 2018).
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