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Four Sketches of Arab Men
Eugène Delacroix · 1832
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist [Lugt suppl. 838a]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 22-27, 1864, lot 535. Baron (Joseph?) Vitta (died 1942), [according to New York 1959 auction cat.]. Sold by Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to Samuel Sair, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [according to New York 1959 auction cat.]; sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, December 9, 1959, lot 13. Sold by Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1960.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, "Eugene Delacroix: An Exhibition," 1964, cat. 121.
- Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe, "Delacroix in Morocco," September 27, 1994-January 15, 1995, p. 144, cat. 8 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Agnes Mongan, "Souvenirs of Delacroix's Journey to Morocco in American Collections," Master Drawings, I (Summer 1963), pp. 20-31.
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E5.
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