c. 1840
33.3 × 23.7 cm (13 1/8 × 9 5/16 in.) frame: 54.6 × 44.5 cm (21 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.)
Artist's studio; his posthumous sale, Paris, 17-24 February 1864; A. Robaut; J. F. Gigoux; his sale, Paris, 1882; Théodore Duret; César M. de Hauke, sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949, inv. no. 1949.6
Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk, brown crayon, and white chalk over graphite on cream paper with blue flecks
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on tracing paper; verso: traces of brown oil paint above and below tiger and along top of his back
19th centuryFrenchCharcoal, black and white chalk, and traces of white opaque watercolor, squared in black chalk, on green-gray wove paper, discolored to tan
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGray ink and brown wash over graphite on white laid paper, laid down to the blue antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, gouache, black and brown ink, black chalk on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, and graphite on beige wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to folded laid paper
19th centuryFrench