Louis-Antoine-Léon Riesener

Léon Riesener (L.2139);
Sa vente, Paris, 10-11 avril 1879

Very small tear upper right, visible on the catalogue. Some stains, visible on the image. The photography is slightly darker than drawing. Framed.
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Léon Riesener et Eugène Delacroix étaient cousins germains. C'est dans l'atelier de son oncle, le peintre Henri-François Riesener, que Delacroix s'initia à l'art du dessin. Les deux jeunes artistes partageaient ensemble la passion des fauves.

Notre dessin peut être rapproché d'une Etude de pattes de félin de Delacroix conservée au Musée du Louvre.¹

1. no. inv. RF 9739; voir Maurice Sérullaz, L'Inventaire général des dessins de l'école française, dessins d'Eugène Delacroix, Paris 1984, sous le no. 1075, p. 392

Léon Riesener and Eugène Delacroix were first cousins, and it was in the studio of his uncle, the painter Henri-François Riesener, that Delacroix first studied the art of drawing. The two young artists shared a love of wild animals.

Our drawing can be compared with a Study of the paws of a feline by Delacroix, now in the Musée du Louvre.¹

1. no. inv. RF 9739; see Maurice Sérullaz, L'Inventaire général des dessins de l'école française, dessins d'Eugène Delacroix, Paris 1984, p. 392, under no. 1075