Harvard Art Museums > 1934.3: Jacob Struggling with the Angel Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Jacob Struggling with the Angel (Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix) , 1934.3,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Sep 10, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/297971. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1934.3 People Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France) Title Jacob Struggling with the Angel Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1850 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/297971 Physical Descriptions Medium Graphite over traces of red chalk on beige antique laid paper Dimensions 56.6 x 38.3 cm (22 5/16 x 15 1/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: mount, below drawing, brown ink: Eug. Delacroix. collector's mark: lower right, red ink: [Delacroix Atelier Sale] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Delacroix Atelier sale [Paris, Hôtel Drouot, February 17-29, 1864, part of lot 297]. Alfred Robaut (1830-1909), Douai and Paris. [Georges Aubry, Paris, from at least 1928 until at least 1930] [1]. [Maurice Gobin, Paris, c. 1933], [2] sold; to Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934 Notes [1] Georges Aubry is listed as the owner of the drawing in 1928, as in the catalogue for the 1930 "Exposition Eugène Delacroix," in "Eugene Delacroix: Zeichnungen Aquarelle und Pastelle," 1929, and in the 1933 text "Choix de Cinquante Dessins de Eugene Delacroix." [2] Correspondence between Philip Hofer and Paul Sachs from January 1934 indicate that Hofer purchased the drawings from Gobin in the summer of 1933. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer Accession Year 1934 Object Number 1934.3 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Drawing is on two pieces of beige antique laid paper joined in the center and mounted onto blue paper Publication History Vente Eugène Delacroix, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, February 17-29, 1864), p. 41, part of lot 297 Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre complète de Eugène Delacroix, Chavanay Freres (Paris, France, 1885), p. 356, under no. 1330 Raymond Escholier, Delacroix, peintre, graveur, écrivain, Henri Floury (Paris, France, 1926 - 1929), Vol. III, p. 101, repr. Charles Martine and Léon Marotte, Eugène Delacroix: Soixante-Dix Aquarelles, Dessins, Croquis, Chez Helleu et Sergent (Paris, 1928), cat. no. 26, repr. as separate plate Charles Baudelaire and Hans Graber, Eugene Delacroix: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle und Pastelle, Benno Schwabe (Basel, 1929), repr. as tafeln 57 Paul Jamot, Centenaire du Romantisme: Exposition Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre (Paris, France, 1930), p. 222, cat. no. 498 Claude Roger-Marx, Choix de Cinquante Dessins de Eugene Delacroix, Braun & Cie, Editeurs d'Art (Paris, 1933), p. 46, repr. Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 686, fig. 360 Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 32 Eugene Delacroix, 1798-1863, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, 1944), p. 62, cat. no. 83, repr. Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chassériau, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), p. 11 Kurt Badt, Eugène Delacroix Drawings, Bruno Cassirer (Oxford, 1946), pp.35, 38, 49, 71, cat. no. 28, repr. p. 49 Delacroix in New England Collections, checklist, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1955), no. 36 Theodore Robert Bowie, Baudelaire and the Graphic Arts, exh. cat., Indiana University (Bloomington, 1957), no page, repr. Memorial de l'exposition Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1963), p. 398-399, cat. no. 517, repr. p. 398 Exposition Delacroix, exh. cat., Municipal Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, 1969), cat. no. D-34, repr. Eugène Delacroix: Selected Letters, 1813-1863, St. Martin's Press (New York, 1970), repr. as fig. 48 Frank Anderson Trapp, The Attainment of Delacroix, The Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD and London, England, 1971), p. 305, repr. as fig. 191 Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863, exh. cat., Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina, 1975), cat. no. 15 The Second Empire: Art in France under Napoleon III, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1978), p. 378, under no. VII-22 Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 85, n.p., pl. 85, repr. Sylvie Forestier, Arlette Sérullaz, and Maurice Sérullaz, Delacroix: Peintures et dessins d'Inspiration Religieuse, exh. cat., Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1986), pp. 90-91, cat. no. 25, repr. p. 91 Eugene Delacroix: Themen und Variationen, Arbeiten auf Papier, exh. cat., Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt, 1987) Eugène Delacroix: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Graphik, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland, 1987), no. 75 Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863): Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from North American Collections, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1991), p. 114, cat. no. 47, repr. Karl Schawelka, "Zu nah am Bild", Musis et Litteris: Festschrift für Bernard Rupprecht zum 65. Geburtstag, Wilhelm Fink (Munich, 1993), pp. 491-522, p. 495, repr. as fig. 2 Michele Hanoosh, Painting and the Journal of Eugène Delacroix, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 1995), p. 157, repr. as fig. 53 Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 139, repr. Peter Rautmann, Delacroix, Citadelles & Mazenod (Paris, 1997), pp. 312-313, repr. p. 312 as fig. 302 Klaus Schrenk, ed., Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe/Kehrer Verlag (Karlsruhe/Heidelberg, 2003), cat. no. 168, repr. Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 259 André du Bouchet, La peinture n'a jamais existé: écrits sur l'art 1949-1999, Le Bruit du Temps (Paris, 2017), pp. 181-182, repr. p. 181 Sébastien Allard and Côme Fabre, Delacroix, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2018), cat. no. 118, p. 172, repr. p. 170 Exhibition History Exposition Eugène Delacroix: Peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins, gravures, documents, Musée du Louvre, Paris Cedex 01, 06/01/1930 - 09/30/1930 Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941 Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946 Delacroix in New England Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/1955 - 11/26/1955 Mémorial de l'Exposition Eugène Delacroix, Musée du Louvre, 01/01/1963 - 12/31/1963 Exposition Delacroix, Municipal Museum of Kyoto, 05/10/1969 - 06/08/1969 Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 11/07/1975 - 12/07/1975 European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979 Delacroix: Peintures et Dessins d'Inspiration Religieuse, Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, 07/05/1986 - 10/06/1986 Eugène Delacroix: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Graphik (Arbeiten auf Papier), Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 06/05/1987 - 08/23/1987 Eugène Delacroix, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 11/01/2003 - 02/01/2004 Delacroix, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 09/17/2018 - 01/06/2019 Related Works 1934.4 Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix Heliodorus Expelled from the Temple Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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