Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002212Four Sketches of Arab Men
Provenance
Estate of the artist [Lugt suppl. 838a]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 22-27, 1864, lot 535. Baron (Joseph?) Vitta (died 1942), [according to New York 1959 auction cat.]. Sold by Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to Samuel Sair, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [according to New York 1959 auction cat.]; sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, December 9, 1959, lot 13. Sold by Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1960.
Exhibition history
London, "Eugene Delacroix: An Exhibition," 1964, cat. 121. Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe, "Delacroix in Morocco," September 27, 1994-January 15, 1995, p. 144, cat. 8 (ill.).
Publications
Agnes Mongan, "Souvenirs of Delacroix's Journey to Morocco in American Collections," Master Drawings, I (Summer 1963), pp. 20-31. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E5.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix / French, 1798-1863
- Date
- 1832
- Medium
- Watercolor and graphite, on tan wove paper, tipped onto cream board
- Dimensions
- 18.4 × 26.9 cm (7 1/4 × 10 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Francis H. Hardy in memory of her Husband
- Accession no.
- 1960.822
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