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Crouching Woman
Eugène Delacroix · 1827
Provenance
Ownership history
- Bequeathed by the artist to Charles Laurent Marechal (called Marechal de Metz) (died 1887); by descent to his son, Bar-le-Duc; sold to M. Landry. Victor Decock, by 1936 [Brussels 1936]; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 12, 1948, Decock sale, lot 2. Private Collector, Paris; sold, Francis Briest, Paris, Apr. 10, 1989, lot 1. Sold by Brandt Dayton, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, "Ingres, Delacroix, Dessins, Pastels et Aquarelles," 1936, cat. 76.
- New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 37 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, August 3, 1996-January 27, 1997 (installation).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, March 24, 2004-September 17, 2004 (Allerton galleries installation).
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Degas and the Nude", October 9, 2011 - February 5, 2012, p. 55, fig. 61, cat. by George T. M. Shackelford, Xavier Rey, et.al.
Literature
Published references
- Germain Bazin, "Pastels de Delacroix pour le Saranapale," L'Amour de l'Art 25 (1945), p. 71 (ill.).
- Jacqueline Bouchot-Saupique, "Musée du Louvre, Dernièrs Donations des 'Amis du Louvre,' au Cabinet des Dessins," Bulletins des Musées de France (December 1948), pp. 248-289.
- Maurice Serullaz, Memorial de l'Exposition Eugène Delacroix (Paris, 1963), no. 101.
- Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delcroix I (Oxford, 1981), p. 120.
- Maurice Serullaz, Dessins d'Eugène Delacroix I (Paris, 1984), nos. 134-136.
- "Frederick Cummings, New York," Art & Auction (September 1990), p. 205.
- Andrea Swanson Honore, "A Pastel Study for 'The Death of Sardanapalus' by Eugène Delacroix," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 21:1 (1991), pp. 6-23 (ill.).
- Extrait de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 1991), p. 57 (ill.).
- James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 213 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago. Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 2000), p. 189 (ill.).
- The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 301 (ill.).
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