Currently not on view
Crouching Royal Tiger
after Eugène Delacroix, 1798–1863; born Clarenton-Saint Maurice, France; died Paris, France
y1961-140
Information
Title
Crouching Royal Tiger
Maker
after Eugène Delacroix
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
41 x 55.8 cm (16 1/8 x 21 15/16 in.)
frame: 62.2 x 76.2 x 10.8 cm (24 1/2 x 30 x 4.1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen
Object Number
y1961-140
Signatures
Signed, bottom right: Eug. Delacroix
Culture
Type
Subject
Roche collection, Bordeaux. Demonts collection, Versailles; Laurent-Richard, Paris (Bought 1874; sold Hotel Drouot; Paris, May 23, 1878, M. Laurent-Richard, cat. no. 17); Quincy A. Shaw, Boston; Wildenstein & Co., New York (sold to Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen, November, 1944); 1961 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
- Catalogue de tableaux modernes et de tableaux anciens composant la collection Laurent-Richard: dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot...les jeudi 23, vendredi 24 & samedi 25 mai 1878..., (Paris : Pillet et Dumoulin, 1878)., cat. no. 17
- Alfred Robaut, Ernest Chesneau and Fernand Calmettes, L'œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies, (Paris: Charavay Frères, 1885)., p. 264; no. 1005 (illus.)
- Camille Mauclair, Eugène Delacroix, (Paris: Librairie Artistique et Littéraire, 1908?). , pl. 40
- André Joubin, Correspondance générale d'Eugène Delacroix, (Paris: Plon, 1936-38)., Vol. 2: p. 304-305
- Eugene Delacroix, 1798-1863, (New York: Wildenstein Galleries, 1944)., p. 32, no. 22 (illus.)
- "Masterpieces of Philadelphia private collections", Bulletin (Philadelphia Museum of Art) 42, no. 214 (May, 1947): p. 65-88., cat. no. 5
- André Joubin, Journal de Eugène Delacroix, (Paris: Plon, 1950)., Vol. 3: p. 374
- Walter Friedländer, David to Delacroix, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952). , fig. 78
- George P. Mras, "A crouching royal tiger by Delacroix", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 21, no. 1 (1962): p. 16-24., p. 16; p. 18 (illus.)
- Lee Johnson, Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863, (Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto?, 1962)., no. 13; p. 35 (illus.)
- Gilberte Martin-Méry, Delacroix: ses maitres, ses amis, ses eleves; exposition 17 mai-30 septembre 1963, (Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux?, 1963)., cat. no. 40; pl. 45
- Delacroix: an exhibition of paintings, drawings and lithographs arranged by the Arts Council of Great Britain in association with the Edinburgh Festival Society, (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1964). , cat. no. 42
- The collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen: an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June 10 through July 24, 1966, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Aug. 2 through Sept. 4, 1966, (San Fransisco, CA: California Palace of the Legion of Honor?, 1966). , cat. no. 7 (illus.)
- Maurice Serullaz, Delacroix, (Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Ed., 1980)., p. 190; no. 287 (illus.)
