Lot 184
  • 184

Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Eugène Delacroix
  • A study for the Orpheus group in the Peers' Library and Two Studies for Mercury and Mars from the Salon de la Paix: Three Drawings
  • each stamped with initials in red
  • pencil on tracing paper (3 items)
  • the smallest: 3 9/16 by 5 1/4 in. 9.2 by 13.3 cm.; the largest: 4 7/16 by 7 9/16 in. 11.4 by 19.4 cm.

Literature

Comparative literature: Orpheus: Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, Oxford, 1989, vol. 5, p. 94, fig. 37
Mars and Mercury: Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, Oxford, 1989, vol. 5, p. 140

 

Condition

Reclining Zeus- backing sheet is missing lower right corner and pices along the bottom edge; folds and creases. Hermes and putti-sheet is extended at left and right edges. All sheets are discolored.
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