Four Sketches of Arab Men by Eugène Delacroix
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Four Sketches of Arab Men

Eugène Delacroix · 1832

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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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