Details
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
Études d'Arnautes
pencil and watercolor heightened with gold on paper
8 5/8 x 11¼ in. (21.8 x 27.5 cm.)
executed circa 1823-1824
Provenance
The artist's studio stamp (Lugt 838a); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22-27 February 1864.
Cornelia Scheffer-Marjolin, Paris.
Sale Psichari, 1911.
Marcel Guérin, Paris.
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 24 February 1987, lot 47.
Jan Krugier, acquired at the above sale.
Literature
R. Escholier, Delacroix, Paris, 1926, vol. I, pp. 114-115 (illustrated).
A. Dückers, Linie, Licht und Schatten: Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 399 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Eugène Delacroix, June-July 1930, p. 256, no. 607.
Bremen, Kunsthalle, Eugène Delacroix, February-April 1964, no. 104.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Eugène Delacroix: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Graphik, June-August 1987, p. 8, no. 4 (illustrated).
New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, May-July 1990 and Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, April-June 1991, Victor Hugo and The Romantic Vision, Drawings and Watercolors, p. 94, no. 62 (illustrated, p. 66).
Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Eugène Delacroix, November 2003-February 2004, pp. 182-184, no. 73 (illustrated, p. 182).
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