Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004501Sketches of Algerian Men
Provenance
Baron Joseph Vitta (died 1942), by 1928 [invoice; Delacroix 1928]. Otto Gerstenberg (died 1935), Berlin [invoice]; probably by descent to his daughter, Margarethe Scharf; probably sold to Fritz and Peter Nathan, Zurich, by 1965; sold to Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, September 1965 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1988.
Publications
Eugène Delacroix, Vingt Aquarelles et Onze Dessins Reproduisant en Fac-Simile L’Album du Maroc de la Collection J. V... (Paris, 1928), no. 13.
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. 1832
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with traces of graphite, on tan wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 20.5 × 30.2 cm (8 1/8 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
- Accession no.
- 1988.141.24
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