Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002497Young Spanish Lady in Costume of Manola
Inscriptions
Stamped lower left: "E.D."
Provenance
Delacroix estate; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 22-27, 1864, Delacroix estate sale, lot 578. Eugene Piron (Achille?), Paris [Chicago 1974]. M. Richy (or Richey?), Paris [Chicago 1974]. Sold, Palais Galliera, Paris, March 12, 1969, lot 26, to Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zürich [letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt dated January 5, 2004 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1970.
Exhibition history
Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 13. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 136-37, cat. 67 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. Tubingen, Kunsthalle, "Ingres und Delacroix: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen," September 12-October 28, 1986, cat. 109; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, November 6-December 21, 1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Graphic Tours: Travel and Nineteenth Century French Works on Paper," January 14-April 17, 1994.
Publications
A. Robaut, L'Oeuvre Complet d'Eugène Delacroix (Paris, 1885), no. 1648. E. Lambert, "Delacroix et l'Espagne," Revue des Arts, 3 (1951), p. 165. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E6.
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
- Gouache and watercolor, with traces of scraping, over graphite, on cream wove paper, discolored to tan, perimeter mounted on pale brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 × 24.1 cm (12 1/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1970.1
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