ID 587673
Lot 25 | FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)
Valeur estimée
£ 35 000 – 45 000
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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