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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.349
People
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title
Africans Dancing in the Street
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1832
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298463

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
23.7 x 18.5 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.c. (in brown ink): Eug. Delacroix.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist, gift; to comte Charles de Mornay, sold [through his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 29, 1877, lot 12]; to L[eon?] Gauchez. Baron Henri de Rothschild, Paris, sold [through Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, June 1931, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.349
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre complète de Eugène Delacroix, Chavanay Freres (Paris, France, 1885), no. 503
  • Agnes Mongan, "Souvenirs of Delacroix's Journey to Morocco in American Collections", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, Summer 1963), vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 29, 31, n. 24, pl. 21
  • Maurice Arama, Le Maroc de Delacroix, Jaguar Editions (Paris, 1987), pg. 217, no. 8
  • Brahim Alaoui, ed., Delacroix: Le Voyage au Maroc, exh. cat. (Paris, 1994-1995), pp. 178-80
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 124, repr.
  • Lee Johnson, "Towards a Reconstruction of Delacroix's Mornay Album", The Burlington Magazine (February 2003), CXLV, no. 1199, pp. 92-95, pp. 92 (fig. 27), 94, 95, no. 12
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 27, repr. (color)
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 178, 180, repr. p. 179 as fig. 4

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA171x Exoticism and Orientalism, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2009 - 05/03/2009

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