Flowers, 1843

Not on View

Medium

watercolor, gouache, and black chalk, over charcoal on light brown wove paper; laid down

Dimensions

overall: 22.5 x 21.9 cm (8 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1995.47.37

Artists / Makers

Eugène Delacroix (artist) French, 1798 - 1863

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right stamped in red: E.D (Lugt 838); by later hand, upper right verso: Mellon 248

Provenance

(Delacroix estate sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17-29 February 1864, no. 625); Alfred Robaut [1830-1909]; (his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 November 1919, no. 43); Marcel Guérin [1873-1948], Paris, by 1930; Alfred Indig, Paris, by 1956; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Delacroix, Eugène
Drouot, Hôtel
Drouot, Hôtel
Guérin, Marcel
Mellon, Paul
Robaut, Alfred

Exhibition History

1885: L'Exposition Eugene Delacroix. Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1885, no. 289.

1930: Exposition Delacroix. Musée du Louvre and Bibliothèque Nationale, 1930, no. 714.

1942: possibly Le Fleurs et les Fruits. Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1942-43: no. 45 (not repr.).

1956: XXVIIIème Exposition Biennale Internationale des Beaux Arts--Venice 1956. Venice, 1956, no. 104 or 55(?).

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. 10.

Bibliography

1885: Robaut, Alfred. L'Oeuvre Complet de Eugène Delacroix. Paris, 1885: no. 776(?).

1926: Escholier, Raymond. Delacroix. Peintre, Graveur, Écrivain. 3 vols. Paris, 1926-29: II: 154, 333.