Provenance:

The Artist

His sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, December 16-18, 1912, Lot 119

Rothschild Collection, thence by descent

Sold: Christie's, Paris, Derniers souvenirs de Ferrières (Rothschild sale) November 16, 2023, Lot 85

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited:

Paris, École nationale des Beaux-Arts, Eugène Delacroix au profit de la souscription destinée à élever à Paris un monument à sa mémoire, March 6 - April 15, 1885

Literature:

Alfred Robaut, L'œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix : peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies, Paris, 1885, p. 353, n° 1318, illus.

Alfred Robaut, Eugène Delacroix : Fac-similé de dessins et croquis originaux, Paris, 1864, pl. 48, illus.

École nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1885, p. 111, n° 384, illus.

Executed on heavy paper, the sheet set 'floating' within an over mat. The outer edges of the sheet verso with tape strips. The verso of the sheet is affixed at the outer edges to the backing under mat. The sheet is likely removable (if the sheet is carefully lifted up from the backing at the edges). The sheet has some pale diffuse scattered foxing spots and a slightly pale bluish discolored area/slight abrasion at upper center just below the top edge of sheet. There is a diagonal crease to the sheet at upper left corner. There is a tiny area (less than one quarter inch) of (apparent possible?) glue residue to top of head of reclining figure at left.

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