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Artworks
Eugène Delacroix
TIGER PREPARING TO SPRINGPastel on paper9 1/8 by 12 1/4 in.
23 by 31 cm.Provenance
Philippe Burty (1830-1890), Paris
Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906), Paris (acquired from the above)Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1847-1907) and his wife Louisine Waldron-Elder (1858-1929), New York (acquired from the above in 1889)
Jean Claude and Jacques Bellier (Sociétè d’Expansion Artistique), Paris
Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris (deposited by H. O. Havemeyer in March 1895, purchased in March 1898)
Marie-Louise Durand-Ruel (1897-1991) and her husband Jean d’Alayer de Costemore d’Arc (1897-1991) (daughter and son-in-law of Joseph Durand-Ruel, acquired from the above in 1949 and sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 3, 1954, lot 4, illustrated, pl. III)
Alexander M. Lewyt (1909-1988) and his wife Élisabeth Roulleau Lewyt (1913-2013), New York and Sand’s Point (acquired from the above, April 1960)
Private Collector (bequeathed by Élisabeth Rolleau Lewyt, 2013)
Exhibitions
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Romanticists and Realists, 1934 (lent by Durand-Ruel, exhibition was without published catalogue, museum then known as the Pennsylvania Museum of Art)
Paris, Jean Claude and Jacques Bellier (Sociétè d’Expansion Artistique), D’Ingres à nos jours: aquarelles, pastels et dessins, 1960, no. 19 (listed as being in the collections of “Havemeyer-Burty-Ayashi”)
Literature
Raymonde Wilhélem, “Les Grandes Ventes,” Plaisir de France, no. 220, February 1957, p. 59, illustrated
Eve Twose Kliman, “Delacroix’s Lions and Tigers: A Link Between Man and Nature,” The Art Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 3, 1982, p. 461, illustrated. p. 462, fig. 33 (location of pastel mistakenly given as the Cleveland Museum of Art)
Gretchen Wold, “Checklist of European and American paintings, watercolors, and drawings collection by Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer,” Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection, New York, 1993, p. 339, no. 263
Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, Oxford, 1993, vol. III, p. 32, cited under no. 209 (author repeats E.T. Kliman’s incorrect location of the pastel as the Cleveland Museum of Art)Lee Johnson, Delacroix Pastels, New York, 1995, pp. 120-1, illustrated (author repeats E.T. Kliman’s incorrect location of the pastel as the Cleveland Museum of Art)
Delacroix: les dernières années, exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1998, p. 317, cited under entry no. 132 (entry by Vincent Pomarède and repeating E.T. Kliman’s incorrect location of the pastel as the Cleveland Museum of Art)
