FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)

Lot 25
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Lot 25 | FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)
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£ 35 000 – 45 000
FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)

Vineyards by a track and a farmhouse on a hill

with inscription ‘B. 917/ Delacroix’ (verso)

graphite, watercolour

7 7/8 x 9 in. (20 x 22.8 cm)







Provenance

The artist’s estate (L. 838a); Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17-29 February 1864, part of lot 587 or lot 604.

Possibly with Paul Cassirer & Co., Amsterdam; from whom acquired on 23 April 1924 for 2500 guilders by

Franz Wilhelm Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem; thence by descent to the present owners.





Literature

A. Robaut, L’Œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, Paris, 1885, part of no. 1672 or 1814.

L. Johnson, Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). Paintings, Drawings and Prints from North American Collections, exhib. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, p. 144, under no. 72.

J.O. Bouffier, ‘The Tours Sketchbook of Delacroix, Eugène’, Metropolitan Museum Journal, XXIX, 1994, p. 139, ill.





Exhibited

Washington, National Gallery of Art, and elsewhere, French Drawings. Masterpieces from Five Centuries, 1952-1953, no. 130.

Tours, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Delacroix en Touraine, 1998, no. 19, ill. (entry by J.O. Bouffier).
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