
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003303Crouching Woman
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist to Charles Laurent Marechal (called Marechal de Metz) (died 1887); by descent to his son, Bar-le-Duc; sold to M. Landry. Victor Decock, by 1936 [Brussels 1936]; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 12, 1948, Decock sale, lot 2. Private Collector, Paris; sold, Francis Briest, Paris, Apr. 10, 1989, lot 1. Sold by Brandt Dayton, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.
Exhibition history
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, "Ingres, Delacroix, Dessins, Pastels et Aquarelles," 1936, cat. 76. New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 37 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992. The Art Institute of Chicago, August 3, 1996-January 27, 1997 (installation). The Art Institute of Chicago, March 24, 2004-September 17, 2004 (Allerton galleries installation). Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Degas and the Nude", October 9, 2011 - February 5, 2012, p. 55, fig. 61, cat. by George T. M. Shackelford, Xavier Rey, et.al.
Publications
Germain Bazin, "Pastels de Delacroix pour le Saranapale," L'Amour de l'Art 25 (1945), p. 71 (ill.). Jacqueline Bouchot-Saupique, "Musée du Louvre, Dernièrs Donations des 'Amis du Louvre,' au Cabinet des Dessins," Bulletins des Musées de France (December 1948), pp. 248-289. Maurice Serullaz, Memorial de l'Exposition Eugène Delacroix (Paris, 1963), no. 101. Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delcroix I (Oxford, 1981), p. 120. Maurice Serullaz, Dessins d'Eugène Delacroix I (Paris, 1984), nos. 134-136. "Frederick Cummings, New York," Art & Auction (September 1990), p. 205. Andrea Swanson Honore, "A Pastel Study for 'The Death of Sardanapalus' by Eugène Delacroix," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 21:1 (1991), pp. 6-23 (ill.). Extrait de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 1991), p. 57 (ill.). James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 213 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago. Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 2000), p. 189 (ill.). The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 301 (ill.).
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
- 1827
- Medium
- Black and red chalk, with pastel, heightened with white chalk, over wash, on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 24.6 × 31.4 cm (9 11/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Style
- romantic
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Through prior bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Accession no.
- 1990.226
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