Delacroix 2018

30. Seated Lion in a Landscape Lion couché dans un paysage

Watercolor on paper 7 5 ⁄ 8 x 10 5 ⁄ 8 Signed lower right

inches (19.5 x 27 cm)

PROVENANCE Collection Tony Mayer; His sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, December 3, 1957, lot 32; Collection J.P. Durand-Matthiesen, Geneva, as of 1963; Collection Stephen Richard Currier & Audrey Currier, as of 1984;

Their sale, New York, May 25, 1984, lot 295; With Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, as of 1987; With Galerie Brame et Lorenceau, Paris; Purchased by Antal Post de Bekessy in 1990.

LITERATURE M. Sérullaz, Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863 , Mémorial de l’exposition organisée à l’occasion du centenaire de l’artiste , Paris, 1963, no. 473 illustrated. EXHIBITIONS Paris, Musée du Louvre, Centenaire d’Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863 , May– September 1963, no. 462 (incorrectly located); Bern, Kunstmuseum, Eugène Delacroix , November 16, 1963–January 19, 1964, no. 206 (M. J.-P. Matthiesen, Genève); Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Eugène Delacroix, 1798 – 1863 , February 23–April 26, 1964, no. 298 (M. J.-P. Matthiesen, Genève); Zurich, Kunsthaus, Eugène Delacroix, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Graphik , June 5– August 23, 1987, no. 68 illustrated (loaned by Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva).