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Details
- Alternative title
- Lion de l'Atlas
- Date
- 1829
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- ii of 4 states
- Dimensions
- 48.3 x 63.1 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 45.1979
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Eugène Delacroix
Works in the collection
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About
Delacroix’s portrayals of wild cats owe a fundamental debt to the lithographs of Géricault. He also greatly admired the works of the British animal painters George Stubbs and James Ward. Delacroix remained deeply fascinated by the ferocity of wild animals, which for many romantics revealed nature’s primal energies beyond the power of human reason.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Three years on: acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981
Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991
Forest and field: from Claude to the Barbizon School, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Jul 1995–17 Sep 1995
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Nicholas Draffin, Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Sydney, 1991, 12. no catalogue numbers
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Nicolas Draffin, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Prints and Drawings - Australia, European and American', pg. 47-66, Sydney, 1981, 51 (illus.). no catalogue numbers
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Renée Free, Forest and field: from Claude to the Barbizon School, 'French romanticism', pg. 4, Sydney, 1995, 4, 7. no catalogue numbers
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Renée Free, AGNSW Collections, 'The Western Heritage, Renaissance to Twentieth Century', pg. 108-172, Sydney, 1994, 127 (colour illus.).
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