Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002316The Old Bridge at Mantes
Provenance
Estate of the artist, from 1863 [Lugt suppl. 838a]. Possibly Baron (Joseph?) Vitta (died 1942) [according to Joachim 1979]. Mame, Tours; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 14, 1960, Mame sale, lot 13. Sold by Stephen Spector, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie Daber, "Peinture 1830-1940," 1962, cat. 35. College Park, Md., University of Maryland Art Gallery, "From Delacroix to Cézanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the 19th Century," October 26-December 4, 1977, pp. 107 and 110, cat. 43 (ill.), cat. by Alain de Leiris and Carol Hynning Smith; traveled to Louisville, Ky., J.B. Speed Museum of Art, January 9-February 19, 1978; and Ann Arbor, Mich., University of Michigan Museum of Art, April 1-May 14, 1978. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 128-129, cat. 57 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
Publications
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), pp. 51-52, no. 2F1.
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
- c. 1827
- Medium
- Watercolor on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 20.3 × 30.3 cm (8 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Olivia Shaler Swan Fund
- Accession no.
- 1963.392
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