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Eugène Delacroix
1798-1863
19th century
Oil on cardboard.
11 1/4 x 14 3/8 inches (286 x 365 mm); frame: 17 5/16 x 20 1/2 inches
Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009.
2009.400:38
Inscription:
On verso, red wac atelier seal stamped with initials: E.D.; fragment of wax seal at lower left; inscribed in graphite at upper left: Venti olo en 1913 Paris [?] / [?] A Delacroix; and sticker bearing the inscription: no. 105 and 11159 (canceled).
Provenance:
The artist's studio; Delacriox estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17-29 February 1864, probably part of lot 219; Henri Haro (1855-1911), Paris; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 8-9 February 1912, lot 5; sale, probably France, 27 January 1923, lot 42; Dr. Paul Steiner (b. 1902?), Berlin; Peter Nathan (b. 1935), Zurich, 1969; sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 March 1985, lot 101, repr.; Natan Saban, Miami; sale, New York, Christie's, 11 February 1997, lot 5, repr.; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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