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拍品專文
This painting of the gamekeeper Fougerat is one of a series of early portraits painted at the home of Delacroix's sister Henriette de Verninac. The house, located in the Forest of Boixe, was used by the family for hunting expeditions and Delacroix stayed there in the autumn months from 1818-1820. Henriette's home was acquired by Delacroix's mother in 1805, but was sold by 1822 when the family fell on hard times. According to Lee Johnson, most of the portraits executed during these autumn trips 'have either been dispersed or were destroyed by 1891' (L. Johnson, op. cit., p. 38).
The Portrait of Fougerat and the Portrait of M. Charles de Verninac (Private Collection), are two of the earliest examples of Delacroix's portraiture. Emile Bias had seen both paintings at the house of Pierre Albert, a nephew of the Verninac family and comments: 'Dans la nombre des primitifs portraits peints par Eugène Delacroix en ce temps-la, on doit mentionner celui du grand-chasse Fougerat, puis le portrait de M. Charles de Verninac. Le premier est figure de trois quarts, en buste, demi-nature; il porte un habit fonce; sa cravate rouge est d'une touche vibrante...' (E. Bias, Notes sur Delacroix, Réunion des sociétés des beaux-arts des departments, Paris, 1891, p. 20).
Professor Lee Johnson has stated: 'This portrait of the gamekeeper must therefore date from those years (circa 1818)... It reveals a precious sensitivity to color relationships, in the way Delacroix sets off the ruddy complexion against the bright red cravat and repeats the blue-gray of the eyes in the shirt' (L. Johnson, op. cit., p. 38).
The Portrait of Fougerat and the Portrait of M. Charles de Verninac (Private Collection), are two of the earliest examples of Delacroix's portraiture. Emile Bias had seen both paintings at the house of Pierre Albert, a nephew of the Verninac family and comments: 'Dans la nombre des primitifs portraits peints par Eugène Delacroix en ce temps-la, on doit mentionner celui du grand-chasse Fougerat, puis le portrait de M. Charles de Verninac. Le premier est figure de trois quarts, en buste, demi-nature; il porte un habit fonce; sa cravate rouge est d'une touche vibrante...' (E. Bias, Notes sur Delacroix, Réunion des sociétés des beaux-arts des departments, Paris, 1891, p. 20).
Professor Lee Johnson has stated: 'This portrait of the gamekeeper must therefore date from those years (circa 1818)... It reveals a precious sensitivity to color relationships, in the way Delacroix sets off the ruddy complexion against the bright red cravat and repeats the blue-gray of the eyes in the shirt' (L. Johnson, op. cit., p. 38).