1943.814: Christ Walking on the Waters

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.814

People

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)

Title

Christ Walking on the Waters

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1852

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297677

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Pastel on blue-gray wove paper, faded to tan within previous mat opening.

Dimensions

32.6 x 24.5 cm (12 13/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Delacroix sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 17-29, 1864, no. 369 (Fr 360; Lugt 1956, no. 838a); purchased at that sale by (?) Claburn; Victor Chocquet, Lille; Paul Arthur Chéramy, Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 5-7, 1908, no. 295 (Fr 420); purchased at that sale by Henri Haro; Raimundo de Castro Maya, Rio de Janeiro; purchased from him by Adolphe Stein, London, 1941 ($200); purchased from him by Wildenstein and Co., New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, August 26, 1941 ($1,750); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.814

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre complète de Eugène Delacroix, Chavanay Freres (Paris, France, 1885), no. 1204, repro.
• Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States, J. J. Augustin, Inc. (New York, 1947), no. 130, repro.
• Agnes Mongan, "Find the Artist", Art News (March 1951), vol. 50, pg. 23, repro.
• Memorial de l'exposition Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1963), under no. 434
• Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), cat. no. 105, repr.
• Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugene Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 1816-1831, The Clarendon Press (Oxford & New York, 1981), vol. 3 (1993 ed.), pp. 287, 307
• Delaroix: Peintures et dessins d'inspiration religieuse, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1986), under no. 17
• Lee Johnson, Delacroix Pastels, George Braziller (New York, 1995), pp. 136-37, repro. p. 137
• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 141, repr.
• Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 30, repr. (color), p. 46
• 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

Exhibition History

• 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
• Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

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