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Eugène Delacroix · 1860–61
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly sold from the artist to Vaisse for 2,500 francs [this and the following information according to Johnson 1989]. Comte d’Aquila; his sale, February 21-22, 1868, lot 7, sold for 14,505 francs. Faure, Paris, 1885 [according to Robaut 1885; see also catalogue of 1892 sale citied below]. R. Austin Robertson, New York; his estate sale, New York, American Art Association, April 7, 1892, lot 147 (ill.); sold for 13,000 francs to Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Eugene Delacroix, March 6-April 16, 1885, cat. 76.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings From the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, August 1910, cat. 22.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Delacroix, March 20-April 20, 1930, cat. 43.
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, Exposition Eugène Delacroix, June-September 1930, cat. 191.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 246.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 192.
- Springfield, Mass., Museum of Fine Arts, From David to Cézanne, February 9-March 10, 1935, cat. 16.
- Pittsburg, Carnegie Institute, A Survey of French Painting, April 2-May 14, 1936, cat. 17.
- Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Gericault, Delacroix, Chasseriau, Painters of the Romantic Movement, April 30-June1, 1946, no cat. no.
- Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Expressionism in American Painting, May 10–June 29, 1952, cat. 3 (ill.).
- Venice, XXVIII Biennale di Venezia, May–September 1956, cat. 42.
- Los Angeles, University of California –Los Angeles Art Council, French Masters From Rococo to Romanticism, March 5–April 16, 1961, no cat. no. (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Alfred Robaut, L’Oeuvre Complet de Eugene Delacroix (Paris, 1885), no. 1350.
- Jean Maurice Tourneaux, Eugène Delacroix devant ses contemporains (Paris, 1886), p. 144.
- Reginald Wilenski, French Painting (Boston, 1931), pl. 85, pp. 209, 212.
- Journal de Eugene Delacroix, 1932, vol. 2, pp. 334, 317, 389, 402.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 190.
- Hans Tietze, Meisterwerks Europäischer Malerei in Amerika (Vienna, 1935), no. 265 (ill.).
- Jean Cassou, Delacroix (Paris, 1947), no. 40.
- Lee Johnson, “Delacroix at the Biennale,” Burlington Magazine 98 (September 1956), pp. 324–330, (ill) 329.
- Giuseppe Marchiori, Delacroix alla Biennale (Venice, 1956), p. 37.
- Karchiori, Delacroix alla Biennale, 1956, pp. 36, (ill.) 37.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), pp. 32-33.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 123, (ill.) p. 244.
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