Studies for the Holy Family

This sheet contains four studies of the Holy Family in brown ink and graphite. The four sketches do not directly correspond to known paintings or lithographs, although the female head in the upper right corner is vaguely reminscent of the Virgin's head seen in profile in "The Education of the Virgin," National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, inv. no. R1193 (Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, A Critical Catalogue. Vol. 3. Oxford, 1986, no. 461, p. 240-241, plate 235).