Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix

Estate of the artist (L.838a), sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 22-27 February 1864, probably part of lot 571 or 572;
with Galerie Jean-François Heim, Paris,
from whom acquired by the late owner at the Salon du dessin, Paris, in 1999

Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe, Delacroix, Le voyage au Maroc, 1994-95, no. 27, reproduced;
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, no. 111, reproduced;
Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Eugène Delacroix, 2003-04, no. 98, reproduced

The sheet is not laid down and is instead attached to the backboard along the upper edge. There is some unevenness and discolouration in the lower left and right corners probably relating to previous adhesive on the reverse. Apart from some light even time-staining to the sheet and a few faint scattered spots of foxing this work is in good overall condition. Presented framed and glazed, the edges of the sheet covered by the mat and not visible framed. For any questions regarding this lot please contact Richard Lowkes in the 19th Century European Paintings department on 020 7293 5477.
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This drawing is dated by Maurice Arama to the second half of Delacroix's trip to Morocco, so betweeen mid-April and 10 June 1832.