Live Auction 20450Old Master and British Works on Paper: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1500-1900
FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (SAINT MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)
Lot 64 Formerly in the Collection of Baron Hatvany

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

Four figure studies of Bedouins and three of head studies; and Studies of two seated men

Closed5 July 2022

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FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (SAINT MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)
Four figure studies of Bedouins and three of head studies; and Studies of two seated men
graphite
22.5 x 28 cm (8 7⁄8 x 11 in.) (i); 16 x 19 cm (6 1⁄3 x 7 1⁄2 in.) (ii)

The artist's studio stamp (L. 838a).
Baron Paul Hatvany (1899-1977), London; thence by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

This sheet seems to be date from Delacroix's seminal sojourn in North Africa in 1832 (for similar studies in graphite see M. Sérullaz, Inventaire général des dessins. École Française. Dessins d’Eugène Delacroix, Paris, 1984, II, nos. 1516, 1519, 1537, ill.)