A Horse Hitched to a Post

c. 1820

Eugène Delacroix

Painter, French, 1798 - 1863

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 19.4 x 21.3 cm (7 5/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
    framed: 28.7 x 31.1 x 5.1 cm (11 5/16 x 12 1/4 x 2 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.59.17

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Delacroix posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 1864, no. 84); Etienne-François Haro [1827-1897]; his son, Henri Haro [1855-1911]; Haro family; (sale, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 22 February 1934, no. 13).[1] Dubourg collection; acquired 1959 by (Wildenstein & Co., New York);[2] sold 1960 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1994 to NGA.
[1] Provenance from Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 6 vols., Oxford, 1981: 1:228, M3.
[2] Wildenstein date and source of acquisition according to a letter dated 14 December 1998, in NGA curatorial files. This may be Jacques Dubourg (1897-1981), an art dealer in Paris from the late 1920s.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1864

  • Oeuvres d'Eugène Delacroix, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1864, no. 43.

1932

  • Eugène Delacroix et ses Amis, Atelier Delacroix, Paris, 1932, no. 40.

Bibliography

1885

  • Robaut, Alfred. L'Oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies. Paris, 1885: no. 1866.

1981

  • Johnson, Lee. The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue. 6 vols. Oxford, 1981: 1:228, no. M3; 2:pl. 176, as A Bay Attached to a Post in a Field.

Wikidata ID

Q20184343

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