Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002499Sketchbook from the Artist's Trip to Germany
Provenance
Estate of the artist; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 22-27, 1864, Delacroix estate sale, to Isidore Pils (1813/15-1875) [inscription inside front cover]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 20, 1876, lot 1121, as Soixante-huit dessins et aquarelles. Louis Becq de Fouquières (1831-1887) [Joachim 1978]. Sold by Bernard Lorenceau, Paris, after 1966, to Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zürich [letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt dated January 5, 2004 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1970.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Graphic Tours: Travel and Nineteenth Century French Works on Paper," January 14-April 17, 1994.
Publications
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1978), pp. 53-62, nos. 2F8-3B6. Margret Stuffmann et al, Eugene Delacroix Reflections Tasso in the Madhouse, (Winterthur, 2008), p. 74, (no fig. #)
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
- 1855–59
- Medium
- Graphite and watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 11.6 × 18.5 cm (4 5/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- sketchbook
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1970.297
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