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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.4
People
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title
Heliodorus Expelled from the Temple
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Study for Saint-Sulpice, Paris
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1850
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297604

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on three sheets of white laid paper, joined vertically at left and horizontally on top.
Dimensions
58.2 x 39.5 cm (22 15/16 x 15 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Maurice Gobin, Paris, c. 1933], [1] sold; to Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934

Notes
[1] Correspondence between Philip Hofer and Paul Sachs from January 1934 indicate that Hofer purchased the drawings from Gobin in the summer of 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
1934.4
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Drawing is on two pieces of beige antique laid paper joined near the top and mounted onto blue paper.

Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 685, fig. 359
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 30
  • Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), no. 117, pl. 128
  • Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), no. 117, pl. 116
  • Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 117, pp. 85-86, pl. 116, repr.
  • Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, 1964), cat. 29
  • Exposition Delacroix, exh. cat., Municipal Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, 1969), cat. no. D-33, repr.
  • Sylvie Forestier, Arlette Sérullaz, and Maurice Sérullaz, Delacroix: Peintures et dessins d'Inspiration Religieuse, exh. cat., Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1986), pp. 88-89, cat. no. 24, repr. p. 89
  • Eugene Delacroix: Themen und Variationen, Arbeiten auf Papier, exh. cat., Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt, 1987), pp. 252, cat. no. K7
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 140, repr.
  • Klaus Schrenk, ed., Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe/Kehrer Verlag (Karlsruhe/Heidelberg, 2003), cat. no. 167, repr.
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 259
  • André du Bouchet, La peinture n'a jamais existé: écrits sur l'art 1949-1999, Le Bruit du Temps (Paris, 2017), pp. 181-182, repr. p. 181

Exhibition History

  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
  • Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
  • Exposition Delacroix, Municipal Museum of Kyoto, 05/10/1969 - 06/08/1969
  • Delacroix: Peintures et Dessins d'Inspiration Religieuse, Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, 07/05/1986 - 10/06/1986
  • Eugène Delacroix, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 11/01/2003 - 02/01/2004

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