Lot 212
  • 212

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
  • sheet of studies of a sleeping cat
  • Pen and brown ink;
    inscribed in brown ink, lower right: jambe de derriere droite 

Provenance

Bears the Delacroix studio stamp (L.838)

Condition

Unframed. The edges of the sheet are somewhat uneven, are there is a loss near the upper left corner, made up. Another, smaller loss at the upper right (made up), and two small holes in the lower right. The ink is a little sunk where it is darkest, and on the bridge of the nose of the cat to the lower right, has caused a loss which has been made up. The image, however, is still strong.
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