c. 1868 - 1870
actual: 23.6 x 48.3 cm (9 5/16 x 19 in.)
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Created, Atelier Degas sold at Vente IV, no. 136c, 1919. Marcel Bing. Vignier. Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1965. Lent to Fogg in 1936
Brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on off-white modern laid paper, discolored
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on tracing paper; verso: traces of brown oil paint above and below tiger and along top of his back
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and watercolor on heavy white paper
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk, brown crayon, and white chalk over graphite on cream paper with blue flecks
19th centuryFrenchCharcoal on beige wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and brown wash on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and traces of graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown and grey wash, watercolor over graphite on cream paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrench