Eugène Delacroix
Tigre qui se lèche (Tiger licking itself)

ArtistFrench, 1798–1863
PublisherParis
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Tigre qui se lèche (Tiger licking itself)
Date1856
Published inParis, France
MediumLithograph on paper, state I/II
DimensionsSheet: 6 1/16 × 8 7/16 in. (15.4 × 21.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor
Object number88.306
Not on view

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ProvenancePrivate collection, Texas; given to MFAH, 1988.
Exhibition History"Vignettes: Masterworks on Paper 1520 to 1870," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 14—April 16, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Initialed in printed ink, in image, lower right: ED [reversed]
Verso: Inscribed, top right: [illegible]
Recto: Initialed in printed ink, in image, lower right: ED [reversed]
Recto: Stamp in blue ink, in image, lower left: [indecipherable]
Catalogue raisonnéDelteil 130 (I/II), Moreau 57, Stuffmann I16

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