Eugène Delacroix

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Eugène Delacroix

1798-1863

Sheet of Sketches with Abduction of a Woman and Four Personifications of the Sciences

Pencil on paper.

8 1/4 x 13 inches (210 x 330 mm)

Gift of Miss Felice Stampfle.

1974.57

Inscription:

Variously inscribed in pencil by the artist, "une figure genée ou assise ou courbée / Hypothénuse / medecine / Chimie - Corne - fiole"; atelier stamp in red ink at lower left corner (Lugt S. 838a).
Watermark: Garden of Holland, Pro Patria (cf. Churchill 127-153). Rampant lion holding sword and wheat sheaves, inside fence, with figure holding staff with hat on tip.

Provenance:

Delacroix atelier sale (Lugt S. 838a); Walter Schatzki, New York; Felice Stampfle, New York.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 159.

Notes:

Probably preliminary ideas for the decoration of the library of the Palais Bourbon, Paris, 1838-1847.

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