Eugène Delacroix
Cliffs at Fecamp
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
(Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798 - 1863 Paris)
Cliffs at Fécamp
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on pale blue paper;
bears inscription on the old backing board: Eugène Delacroix. La falaise de Fécamp
157 by 205 mm; 6¼ by 8⅛ in.
The artist’s studio (L.838a),
Atelier sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 16-29 February 1864, part of lot 595 or lot 600;
Private collection, France;
with W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York, Master Drawings 1770-1900, 2001, no. 22,
where acquired by Diane A. Nixon
New York, The Morgan Library & Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, no. 81 (entry by Jennifer Tonkovich);
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art; Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection, 2012-2013, no. 83
Possibly A. Robaut, L'oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, Paris 1885, under no. 1807 (Falaises et rochers)
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