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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris)
Lot 141

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris)

Studies of houses and a two-towered building at Meknès

Closed9 December 2015

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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris)
Studies of houses and a two-towered building at Meknès
pencil, stumping
5 x 7½ in. (12.5 x 19 cm.)

The artist's studio stamp (L. 838a) (twice).

Specialist note

The two-towered building in the upper sketch of this drawing appears, from the same viewpoint though slightly further away, in a watercolour by Delacroix today in the Musée de la ville de Poitiers et de la société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest, Poitiers (A. Sérullaz, in Delacroix: le voyage au Maroc, exhib. cat., Paris, L'Institut du Monde Arabe, 1994-95, no. 38, ill.).