1943.349: Africans Dancing in the Street

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.349

People

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

Title

Africans Dancing in the Street

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1832

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298463

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

Dimensions

23.7 x 18.5 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.c. (in brown ink): Eug. Delacroix.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The artist, gift; to comte Charles de Mornay, sold [through his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 29, 1877, lot 12]; to L[eon?] Gauchez. Baron Henri de Rothschild, Paris, sold [through Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, June 1931, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.349

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. 503
• Agnes Mongan, "Souvenirs of Delacroix's Journey to Morocco in American Collections", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, Summer 1963), vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 29, 31, n. 24, pl. 21
• Maurice Arama, Le Maroc de Delacroix, Jaguar Editions (Paris, 1987), pg. 217, no. 8
• Brahim Alaoui, ed., Delacroix: Le Voyage au Maroc, exh. cat. (Paris, 1994-1995), pp. 178-80
• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 124, repr.
• Lee Johnson, "Towards a Reconstruction of Delacroix's Mornay Album", The Burlington Magazine (February 2003), CXLV, no. 1199, pp. 92-95, pp. 92 (fig. 27), 94, 95, no. 12
• 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. 27, repr. (color)
• Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 178, 180, repr. p. 179 as fig. 4

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
• 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
• Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA171x Exoticism and Orientalism, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2009 - 05/03/2009

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