Écorché: Three Studies of a Male Cadaver

Artist:: Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris) (his estate sale, Paris Feb. 22-27, 1864)

Date:: 1820–63

Medium:: Graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions:: Overall: 9 5/8 x 14 1/16 in. (24.4 x 35.7 cm)

Classification:: Drawings

Credit Line:: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of David and Constance Yates, 2013

Accession Number:: 2013.1135.13

Not on view

Inscription: Numbered in brown ink, lower right: no. 304

Marking: Stamped in red ink, lower right: Mark of Delacroix's posthumous sale 1864 (Lugt 838a); stamped in brown ink, lower left: Mark of J.B. Carpeaux

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, Valenciennes 1827–1875 Courbevoie)(his sale Paris, Dec. 8-9, 1913); Lucien Goldschmidt(sold to Karen B. Cohen, 1983); Donor: Karen B. Cohen

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863): Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from North American Collections," April 10, 1991–June 16, 1991.

MMA 1991.54

Jacob Bean, Lee Johnson, William M. Griswold Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863): Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from North American Collections. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, cat. no. 54, p. 123, ill.

Christophe Leribault Une passion pour Delacroix: la collection Karen B. Cohen. Paris, 2009, cat. no. 81, p. 116, ill.

Essays
The Aesthetic of the Sketch in Nineteenth–Century France
Lithography in the Nineteenth Century
Nadar (1820–1910)
Orientalism in Nineteenth–Century Art
The Print in the Nineteenth Century
The Rise of Paper Photography in 1850s France
Romanticism
The Salon and The Royal Academy
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)