1943.354: An Arab and His Steed

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.354

People

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

Title

An Arab and His Steed

Other Titles

Alternate Title: A Turk Leading His Horse

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1832-1833

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298464

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor on white wove paper

Dimensions

22.6 x 30 cm (8 7/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
framed: 48.3 x 52.1 x 2.5 cm (19 x 20 1/2 x 1 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: brown ink, l.r.: Eug. Delacroix

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Scott and Fowles, New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, September 24, 1925, 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

1943.354

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chassériau, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), pg. 10
• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 114, 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. 28, repr. (color)
• Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 28, repr.

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, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
• 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/04/2015 - 07/08/2015

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