Live Auction 2312Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper Featuring Property from the Collection of Mrs Sidney F. Brody
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Lot 140 Property from the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody

Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)

Les derniers paroles de l'Empereur Marc Aurele or The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Closed5 May 2010

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Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
Les derniers paroles de l'Empereur Marc Aurele or The Death of Marcus Aurelius
black chalk on paper; watermark D&C Blauw
9 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. (23.8 x 30.8 cm.)
Drawn circa 1845

Estate of the artist sale, Paris, 17-29 (L838a) February 1864, part of lot 346 (60FF to Arosa).
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris.
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 1954.
John S. Newberry, New York.
Acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, by 1963.

Specialist note

Related to Delacroix's painting of the same subject, presented at the 1845 Salon, now at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon (Johnson, op. cit., pp. 106-108, no. 281; II, pl. 99). Johnson wrote that Delacroix, along with his collaborator on the painting, Louis de Planet, used the present lot as a working drawing. Another more preliminary drawing of the same subject is in the Louvre.