1943.351: A Woman Bathing and Her Moorish Servant

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.351

People

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

Title

A Woman Bathing and Her Moorish Servant

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1832

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298505

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 16 x 18.3 cm (6 5/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

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

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Given by the artist to comte Charles de Mornay; his sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 29, 1877, no. 5 (Fr 1,000); purchased at that sale by Goupil; purchased from them by vicomte Paul Daru; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 5-6, 1877, no. 24 (Fr 360); Paul Rosenberg, Paris; Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, February 2, 1923 ($1,000); 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

1943.351

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. 496
• Raymond Escholier, Delacroix, peintre, graveur, écrivain, Henri Floury (Paris, France, 1926 - 1929), vol. 2 (1927), pg. 72
• Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Voyage au Maroc, 1832: lettres, aquarelles et dessins, Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1930), no. 17, p. 17
• Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chassériau, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), pg. 10
• Agnes Mongan, "Find the Artist", Art News (March 1951), vol. 50, repro. pg. 22
• 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. 28-29, 38 n. 23, pl. 20
• Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugene Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 1816-1831, The Clarendon Press (Oxford & New York, 1981), vol. 3 (1986), under no. 169, fig. 4
• Maurice Sérullaz, Arlette Sérullaz, and Louis-Antoine Prat, Dessins d'Eugène Delacroix, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1984), vol. 2, under no. 1573
• Maurice Arama, Le Maroc de Delacroix, Jaguar Editions (Paris, 1987), pg. 217, no. 3
• Guy Dumur, Delacroix et le Maroc, Herscher (Paris, 1988), pp. 80-81, repro.
• Alain Daguerre de Hureaux, Delacroix, Hazan (Paris, France, 1993), color repr. p. 197
• Stéphane Guégan, Delacroix et les Orientales, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1994), p. 60, color repr. p. 61
• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 123, repr.
• Barthélémy Jobert and Gallimard, Delacroix (Paris, 1997), pp. 149-50
• Barthélémy Jobert, Delacroix, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 1998), pp. 149-50
• Alain Daguerre de Hureaux, Delacroix: Moroccan Journey, Watercolors, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, 2000), pp. 20-21
• Vincent Pomarède, "La Collection Winthrop: A la recherche de la beauté pure", L'Estampille/L'Objet d'art (April 2003), no. 379, pp. 34-45, p. 43
• Lee Johnson, "Towards a Reconstruction of Delacroix's Mornay Album", The Burlington Magazine (February 2003), CXLV, no. 1199, pp. 92-95, p. 95 (appendix no. 5)
• 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. 26, 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. 26, repr.
• Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 242

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
• The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
• 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
• Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA171x Exoticism and Orientalism, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2009 - 05/03/2009
• Body Image in French Art and Visual Culture (18th and 19th Centuries), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016

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