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Attributed to Eugène Delacroix
1798-1863
Head of a Woman
ca. 1824
Watercolor and opaque watercolor over graphite.
7 9/16 x 5 13/16 inches (192 x 148 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.70
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Signed at lower right with estate stamp, "E.D."
Provenance:
Delacroix atelier sale, 1864 (Lugt S. 838a), 22-27 February 1864; Alfred Robaut, Paris; Moreau-Nélaton, Paris (no mark; see Lugt 1900); Acquavella Galeries, New York; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names:
Robaut, Alfred, 1830-1909, former owner.
Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne, 1859-1927, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 102, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw. Part II. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, no. 39.
Escholier, Raymond. Delacroix, Peintre, Graveur, Écrivain, Paris: H, Floury, 1926, p. 121, ill.
Robaut, Alfred. L'Oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969, no. 94, ill.
Johnson, Lee. The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, 1816-1831. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981, vol. 1, p. 91.
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