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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.3
People
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title
Jacob Struggling with the Angel
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1850
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297971

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite over traces of red chalk on beige antique laid paper
Dimensions
56.6 x 38.3 cm (22 5/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, below drawing, brown ink: Eug. Delacroix.
  • collector's mark: lower right, red ink: [Delacroix Atelier Sale]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Delacroix Atelier sale [Paris, Hôtel Drouot, February 17-29, 1864, part of lot 297]. Alfred Robaut (1830-1909), Douai and Paris. [Georges Aubry, Paris, from at least 1928 until at least 1930] [1]. [Maurice Gobin, Paris, c. 1933], [2] sold; to Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934

Notes
[1] Georges Aubry is listed as the owner of the drawing in 1928, as in the catalogue for the 1930 "Exposition Eugène Delacroix," in "Eugene Delacroix: Zeichnungen Aquarelle und Pastelle," 1929, and in the 1933 text "Choix de Cinquante Dessins de Eugene Delacroix."

[2] 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
1934.3
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 in the center and mounted onto blue paper

Publication History

  • Vente Eugène Delacroix, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, February 17-29, 1864), p. 41, part of lot 297
  • Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre complète de Eugène Delacroix, Chavanay Freres (Paris, France, 1885), p. 356, under no. 1330
  • Raymond Escholier, Delacroix, peintre, graveur, écrivain, Henri Floury (Paris, France, 1926 - 1929), Vol. III, p. 101, repr.
  • Charles Martine and Léon Marotte, Eugène Delacroix: Soixante-Dix Aquarelles, Dessins, Croquis, Chez Helleu et Sergent (Paris, 1928), cat. no. 26, repr. as separate plate
  • Charles Baudelaire and Hans Graber, Eugene Delacroix: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle und Pastelle, Benno Schwabe (Basel, 1929), repr. as tafeln 57
  • Paul Jamot, Centenaire du Romantisme: Exposition Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre (Paris, France, 1930), p. 222, cat. no. 498
  • Claude Roger-Marx, Choix de Cinquante Dessins de Eugene Delacroix, Braun & Cie, Editeurs d'Art (Paris, 1933), p. 46, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 686, fig. 360
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 32
  • Eugene Delacroix, 1798-1863, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, 1944), p. 62, cat. no. 83, repr.
  • Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chassériau, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), p. 11
  • Kurt Badt, Eugène Delacroix Drawings, Bruno Cassirer (Oxford, 1946), pp.35, 38, 49, 71, cat. no. 28, repr. p. 49
  • Delacroix in New England Collections, checklist, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1955), no. 36
  • Theodore Robert Bowie, Baudelaire and the Graphic Arts, exh. cat., Indiana University (Bloomington, 1957), no page, repr.
  • Memorial de l'exposition Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1963), p. 398-399, cat. no. 517, repr. p. 398
  • Exposition Delacroix, exh. cat., Municipal Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, 1969), cat. no. D-34, repr.
  • Eugène Delacroix: Selected Letters, 1813-1863, St. Martin's Press (New York, 1970), repr. as fig. 48
  • Frank Anderson Trapp, The Attainment of Delacroix, The Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD and London, England, 1971), p. 305, repr. as fig. 191
  • Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863, exh. cat., Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina, 1975), cat. no. 15
  • The Second Empire: Art in France under Napoleon III, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1978), p. 378, under no. VII-22
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 85, n.p., pl. 85, 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. 90-91, cat. no. 25, repr. p. 91
  • Eugene Delacroix: Themen und Variationen, Arbeiten auf Papier, exh. cat., Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt, 1987)
  • Eugène Delacroix: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Graphik, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland, 1987), no. 75
  • Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863): Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from North American Collections, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1991), p. 114, cat. no. 47, repr.
  • Karl Schawelka, "Zu nah am Bild", Musis et Litteris: Festschrift für Bernard Rupprecht zum 65. Geburtstag, Wilhelm Fink (Munich, 1993), pp. 491-522, p. 495, repr. as fig. 2
  • Michele Hanoosh, Painting and the Journal of Eugène Delacroix, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 1995), p. 157, repr. as fig. 53
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 139, repr.
  • Peter Rautmann, Delacroix, Citadelles & Mazenod (Paris, 1997), pp. 312-313, repr. p. 312 as fig. 302
  • Klaus Schrenk, ed., Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe/Kehrer Verlag (Karlsruhe/Heidelberg, 2003), cat. no. 168, 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
  • Sébastien Allard and Côme Fabre, Delacroix, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2018), cat. no. 118, p. 172, repr. p. 170

Exhibition History

  • Exposition Eugène Delacroix: Peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins, gravures, documents, Musée du Louvre, Paris Cedex 01, 06/01/1930 - 09/30/1930
  • 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
  • Delacroix in New England Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/1955 - 11/26/1955
  • Mémorial de l'Exposition Eugène Delacroix, Musée du Louvre, 01/01/1963 - 12/31/1963
  • Exposition Delacroix, Municipal Museum of Kyoto, 05/10/1969 - 06/08/1969
  • Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 11/07/1975 - 12/07/1975
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • Delacroix: Peintures et Dessins d'Inspiration Religieuse, Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, 07/05/1986 - 10/06/1986
  • Eugène Delacroix: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Graphik (Arbeiten auf Papier), Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 06/05/1987 - 08/23/1987
  • Eugène Delacroix, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 11/01/2003 - 02/01/2004
  • Delacroix, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 09/17/2018 - 01/06/2019

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