

PROPERTY OF A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTOR
(Probably) Alfred Robaut, L'Œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, Paris, 1885, no. 382 (dated 1832)
André Joubin (ed.), Journal de Eugène Delacroix, Paris, 1950, vol. III, p. 372, supplement, mentioned
Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, Oxford, 1981, vol. I, p. 25, no. 32, catalogued; vol. II, pl. 27, illustrated
Painted circa 1825-6.
Bastiano Vicentini appears to have served Delacroix as a model and handyman (Alfred Joubin (ed.), Correspondance générale d'Eugène Delacroix, Paris, 1835-8, vol. I, p. 184, a letter postmarked 18 June 1826)