
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002413The Turkish Rider
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: "Eug. Delacroix"
Provenance
Gustave Revenaz, Paris, by 1885 [Paris 1885]. Private Collection, Paris, by 1964 [Bern 1964]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1965.
Exhibition history
Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, "Eugène Delacroix," March 6-April 15, 1885, cat. 285. Kunstmuseum Bern, "Delacroix," November 16, 1963-January 19, 1964, cat. 169. Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 12 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 134-35, cat. 66 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986. Frankfurt, Germany, the Städelsches Kunstinstitut and the Stadtische Galerie, "Delacroix: Works on Paper," September 23, 1987-January 4, 1988.
Publications
Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre Complet de Eugène Delacroix, (Paris, 1885), no. 565 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1965-1966), pp. 3, 9, and 29 (ill.). Gottfried Lindemann, "Prints and Drawings: A Pictorial History", (Praeger Publishers, Inc. 1970), p. 291 (ill.) Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E8. David M. Cassidy, "Passing the Tradition," The Chicago Report (1996). Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26, 1 (2000), pp. 5-15, fig. 6.
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. 1834
- Medium
- Gouache and watercolor, with scraping, selectively gum-varnished, on cream wove paper, laid down on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 25.2 × 18.7 cm (9 15/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1965.455
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