Medium:Oil over pen and ink on tracing paper; mounted on canvas and backed with linen
Dimensions:Sheet: 22 3/8 in. × 16 in. (56.8 × 40.6 cm) Framed: 29 × 22 1/2 in. (73.7 × 57.2 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 2016
Object Number:2016.759
The artist (possibly given to Andrieu); Pierre Andrieu (French)(until at least 1864); member of the Orléans family, possibly Philippe d'Orleans (French), comte de Paris, Château d'Eu, Normandy (by 1891-d.1894); his daughter Princesse Hélène d'Orléans, duchess of Aosta (French)(1895-d.1951); her daughter-in-law Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (Greek), Florence (1851-at least 1959, when consigned to Harvard); Michael Harvard, London); [ Claude Aubry, Paris, by 1963 ]; [ Eugene Victor Thaw, New York, by 1967 ]; [ Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, until 1985 ]; Karen B. Cohen, New York (1985-2016)
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New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection," October 17, 2000–January 21, 2001.
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The Morgan Library & Museum. "Delirium: The Art of the Symbolist Book," January 20, 2017–May 14, 2017.
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Theophile Silvestre Histoire des Artistes Vivants, Francais et Etrangers: Etudes d'apres Nature. Paris, 1856.
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts Exposition d'Oeuvres de Eugene Delacroix. Paris, 1864.
Jack J. Spector The Murals of Eugene Delacroix at Saint-Sulpice. New York, 1967.
Julius Meier-Graefe, Lane Faison Jr. Corot-Delacroix, an Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors.. Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 1986.
Lee Johnson The Paintings of Eugene Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue: Volumes 5-6: The Public Decorations and their Sketches; Supplements and Plates. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989, vol. VI.
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.
Colta Ives, Elizabeth E. Barker Romanticism and the School of Nature : Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection. Exh. cat.: October 17 - January 21, 2001. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, New York, 2000.
Christophe Leribault Une passion pour Delacroix: la collection Karen B. Cohen. Paris, 2009.
Joyce C. Polistena Nouvelles sources pour le cycle de peintures murales de Delacroix à Saint-Sulpice Bulletin de la Société des Amis du Musée National Eugène Delacroix. 7, Paris, 2009.
Sébastien Allard, Côme Fabre Delacroix. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2018.
Ashley Dunn, Colta Ives, Marjorie Shelley Delacroix Drawings: The Karen B. Cohen Collection. New York, 2018.
Dominique de Font-Réaulx Une lutte moderne, de Delacroix à nos jours. Paris, 2018.
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