Live Auction 19450Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours including a Fine Collection of Old Master Prints
FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)
Lot 60

FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)

Studies of nude figures, after Michelangelo

Closed6 July 2021

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FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)
Studies of nude figures, after Michelangelo
pen and brown ink on tracing paper
10 ½ x 9 in. (26.8 x 22.6 cm)

The artist’s estate (L. 838a); Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17-19 February 1864, probably part of lot 629.
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London (Nineteenth century French drawings, 1981, no. 12, pl. 13).

Specialist note


A great number of drawings by Delacroix after old masters are known, in particular after Peter Paul Rubens. Comparable in technique and handling, and like the present sketch also based on figures in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, can be found in the Louvre, inv. RF 9617, RF 10306 (M. Sérullaz, Inventaire général des dessins. École française. Dessins d’Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863, Paris, 1984, II, nos. 1420, 1421, ill.).