Study of Arabs

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 21.1 x 28.9 cm (8 5/16 x 11 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

2006.128.17

Artists / Makers

Eugène Delacroix (artist) French, 1798 - 1863

Image Use

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Inscription

center left in graphite: de Fétuan(?)

Marks and Labels

artist's studio stamp

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Rogers. Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to Mrs. Mellon; life interest released 2006.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul
Rogers, Leo Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1959: French Master Drawings, Renaissance to Modern, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, 1959, no. 73.

2012: Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 8.