Lion and Tortoise

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
1/01/2002	Treatment	examined for exhibition; other

Exhibitions

• The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma. 2005-2006.

Provenance Delacroix Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 17-19, 1864, lot 474; Baron de Laage, Paris, 1864; Georges Petit [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1866, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions "E.D." in lower left stamped in red (Lugt Suppl. ?); "Eugène Delacroix" in blue ink on reverse in later hand

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters, 1866