Description
A large feline head in profile shares this page from Delacroix’s sketchbook of views of Tours with a smaller hoofed-animal head and faint writing. The pale pencil marks give the studies a spacious setting, allowing separate observations to remain distinct. Eugène Delacroix brings animal forms into the close scale of a working page, where a head can become a particular encounter without requiring a complete scene around it.
The page belongs to a sketchbook dated 1828–29, catalogued for views of Tours and its surroundings. Its displayed animal studies show how a working book can gather subjects beyond the places named in its overall title. The sketchbook’s graphite and watercolor media preserve different means of observation, while this pale drawn page offers an intimate encounter with Delacroix’s attention to the shape and character of animal heads.
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