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Tiger and Snake
Eugène Delacroix1862
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Tiger and Snake
- Creator: Eugène Delacroix
- Date Created: 1862
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 33.02 × 41.28 cm (13 × 16 1/4 in.) framed: 41.75 × 49.21 × 7.94 cm (16 7/16 × 19 3/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: Marquis de L., Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 February 1865, no 12); Paul van Cuyck, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7-10 February 1866, no. 7); Comte d'Aquila, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21-22 February 1868, no. 8); Hermann, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 February 1879, no. 8). Th. Leroy; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 May 1882, no. 16). (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris);[1] (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), August 1882;[2] purchased 14 November 1883 by Mary J. Morgan, New york;[3] (her sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 3-15 March 1886, no. 188). Henry M. Johnston, Brooklyn, New York;[4] (his sale, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, 20-28 February 1893). (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1899 by H. S. Henry, New York;[5] (his sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 25 January 1907, no. 13); William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] According to M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 3, 1-4368, 1875 December-1883 December, page 182, the painting is stock number 4053. [2] See previous source. [3] According to M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 4, 4369-8799, 1883 April-1899 April, page 6, stock number 4053. [4] Johnston's sale catalogue states that the work was formerly in the collection of Durand-Ruel, Paris. [5] Henry's sale catalogue lists Knoedler as the former owner.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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