Study for Saint Michael Vanquishing Lucifer

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1934.2
People: Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title: Study for Saint Michael Vanquishing Lucifer
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1849-1850
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/297835

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Graphite on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions: 28.5 × 34.9 cm (11 1/4 × 13 3/4 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: 1934.2
Division: European and American Art
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Publication History

Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 687, fig. 361
Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 138, repr.
Klaus Schrenk, ed., Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe/Kehrer Verlag (Karlsruhe/Heidelberg, 2003), cat. no. 169, repr.

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