A False Scalping Performed by Iowa Tribe Members in Paris

1845

Eugène Delacroix

Associated Names
Eugène Delacroix

Artist, French, 1798 - 1863

The image is an ink drawing featuring two figures. One figure is standing and leaning over the other figure, who is lying on the ground. The standing figure appears to be male, with angular limbs, hair, and a garment with tassels. The figure on the ground has one arm outstretched and one bent, with indistinct facial features. Bold lines emphasize the musculature of both figures. The background is plain and textured.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Atelier Delacroix (Lugt 838a); (Delacroix sale, Hôtel Drouot, 22-27 February 1864, probably part of no. 652 ("croquis d'après des sauvages Iowas 1834 [sic]; 33 feuilles de dessins et croquis; en quatre lots à MM. Riesener, Barbet de Jouy, Sensier, Philippe Rousseau"); Philippe Rousseau [1816-1887], animal painter; (Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris); Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, Paris. (Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by 1954). Jean-Pierre Durand-Matthiesen, Geneva, by 1963; (Thomas Le Claire Gallery, Hamburg, by 1987); (Brandt Dayton Gallery, New York); William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee, Dallas, TX, 1988; bequest to NGA, 2019.

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Exhibition History

1954

  • Gros, Géricault, Delacroix. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1954, no. 298.

1963

  • Exposition Eugène Delacroix à l'occasion du centenaire de la mort de l'artiste. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1963, no. 354.

2014

  • Mind's Eye: Masterworks on Paper from David to Cézanne. Dallas Museum of Art, 2014, no. 13 (color)(entry by Louis-Antoine Prat).

Bibliography

1885

  • Robaut, Alfred. L'Oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies. Paris, 1885: no doubt part of no. 1671.

1963

  • Sérullaz, Maurice. Mémorial de l'Exposition Eugène Delacroix. Paris, 1963, 260, no. 351 (reprod.).

1984

  • Sérullaz, Maurice, et al. Inventaire général des dessins, école française: Dessins d'Eugène Delacroix. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1984, 2: 99, under no. 1514.

Markings

Delacroix's studio stamp (Lugt 838), or one of the false marks [D is indistinct]

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