Eugène Delacroix

Acquired directly from the artist by Tedesco Frères, Paris, 27 April 1860;

Frederick Davin, Paris;

His sale et al., Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 29 March 1862, lot 9 (as Chasse au Lion), where unsold;

With Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1872;

With Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, by 1885;

M. Duché, Paris, by December 1887;

From whom acquired by Bernheim Jeune, Paris, 6 May 1907;

By whom sold to Julien Bessonneau, Angers, 27 December 1911;

His sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 15 June 1954, lot 29;

Lucie Frappier, née Bessonneau (b. 1882), Paris;

Poumayou, Angers;

With Wildenstein & Co., New York, by 1960;

Hugh Beaumont (1908–1973), London;

By whose Executors sold ('The Property of the Late Hugh Beaumont (sold by order of the Executors)'), London, Sotheby's, 2 July 1974, lot 14;

Where acquired by J. Mulligan;

O. Roy Chalk (1907–1995), Palm Beach;

Private collection;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 April 1981, lot 6;

Stanley J. Seeger (1930–2011), New York;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 29 November 1988, lot 30;

Where acquired by Mr and Mrs Robert Schmit, Paris.

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Recueil d'Estampes, gravées à l'Eau Forte, Paris 1873, no. 75;

A. Robaut, L'œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix: peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies, Paris 1885, p. 269, no. 1019 (dated 1847);

C. Ponsonailhe, 'L'exposition de l'œuvre d'Eugène Delacroix', in L'Artiste, 9th series, no. XXIII, 1885, p. 174;

E. Moreau-Nélaton, Delacroix raconté par lui-même, Paris 1916, vol. II, pp. 137–38, reproduced fig. 364 (dated 1854);

J. Meier-Graefe, Eugène Delacroix, Beiträge zu einer Analyse, Munich 1922, p. 176, reproduced (dated 1847);

A. Joubin (ed.), Journal de Eugène Delacroix, Paris 1932, vol. III, p. 213;

L. Rudrauf, 'De la bête à l'ange (les étapes de la lutte vitale dans la pensée et l'art d'Eugène Delacroix)', in Acta Historiae Artium Academiae Scientarium Hungaricae, IX, fasc. 3–4, 1963, pp. 307 and 320, reproduced fig. 10;

L.R. Bortolatto, L'opera pittorica completa di Delacroix, Milan 1972, p. 127, no. 699, reproduced;

M. Serullaz, Delacroix, Paris 1981, p. 198, no. 456, reproduced;

L. Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, a critical catalogue 1832-1863, Oxford 1986, vol. III, p. 298, no. S3, reproduced vol. IV, pl. 313 (as a studio work);

L. Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, The Public Decorations and their Sketches, A Critical Catalogue - Volume VI, Supplement and Plates, Oxford 1989, p. 209, no. S3. 

London, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Society of French Artists 3, 1872, no. 27;

Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Delacroix, 6 March – 15 April 1885, no. 237;

Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Impressionism: An Exhibition Commemorative of the Tenth Anniversary of the Columbia Museum of Art, Symbolic of Its Introduction of New Ideas Into the World of Today, 3 April – 8 May 1960, no. 13;

Caracas, Museo de bellas artes, 5 siglos de arte frances, 24 May – 24 June 1977, no. 38;

Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres Français XIXe - XXe siècles, 11 May – 19 July 1989, no. 18;

Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres Français XIXe - XXe siècles, 13 May – 16 July 1992, no. 17;

Paris, Galerie Schmit, De Corot à de Staël: Maîtres Français XIXe - XXe siècles, 30 April – 9 July 1997, no. 18.