Eugène Delacroix
Sketch for L'Industrie
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Eugène Delacroix
1798 - 1863
Sketch for L'Industrie
oil on canvas
17,4 x 36 cm ; 6⅞ x 14⅛ in.
We are grateful to the Comité Eugène Delacroix for having confirmed the authenticity of the work after first-hand inspection. It will be included in their forthcoming digital catalogue de l’Œuvre.
Estate of the artist
Hi sale after death (its red wax seal on the stretcher), Mes Pillet and Lainné, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17-29 February 1864, lot 3 (withdrawn)
Achille Piron, Paris (universal legatee of Eugène Delacroix)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 April 1865, lot 14 (his sale after death; described as Attributed to Delacroix)
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 6 April 1954, lot 36
Schlumberger Collection, Paris
Alfred Robaut, L’œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix. Peintures dessins gravures lithographies. 1813-1863, Paris, 1885, no. 1657, p. 424
Lee Johnson, The paintings of Eugène Delacroix. A Critical Catalogue, Oxford, 1989, Vol. V, fig. 6, p. 10 (described as a copy by a pupil of Delacroix)
Pierre Georgel, Tout l'œuvre peint de Delacroix, Paris 1975, p. 105, no. 311 (as a sketch for L'Industrie)
Lee Johnson, ‘Three copies after Delacroix, by Delacroix’, in The Burlington Magazine, April 1996, vol. 138, no. 1117, pp. 246-48, fig. 29 (as Whereabouts unknown)
