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A woman dressed in a dark, high-collared dress with a golden trimmed inner-garment and gold chains draped across the bodice.

Portrait of a woman dressed in a dark, high-collared dress. The outer portion of the dress features large puffed sleeves ending in a lace cuff. Though dark, there appears to be a decoration embroidered into the velvet of the dress. Gold accents embellish the inner portion of the dress, while a sheer fabric creates a v-neckline. Gold chains drape across the bodice of the dress, matching the woman's gold earrings. Her strawberry-blond hair is pinned up into a bun and she gazes towards the viewer with a slight smile. A deep red curtain hangs behind Susan, brightening the otherwise dark background.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.190
People
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
After Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish (Siegen, Westphalia 1577 - 1640 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Suzanne Fourment, after Rubens
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370169

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
65.5 × 54 cm (25 13/16 × 21 1/4 in.)
framed: 84.5 × 73.7 cm (33 1/4 × 29 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left of frame, blue crayon: KMB 44
  • stamp: verso, center stretcher, black ink: 2395
  • label: verso, center stretcher, cut, black ink: 614[or 7]1
  • inscription: verso, top of frame, black crayon: 4 [encircled]
  • inscription: verso, top of frame, white : D 9976-4
  • inscription: verso, right stretcher, blue crayon: [illegible text]
  • label: verso, bottom of frame, masking tape, : K. 34
  • label: verso, bottom of frame, under old backing paper, obscured, black ink: [illegible] 41
  • label: verso, bottom of frame, blue: [printed:] WILDENSTEIN & CO., LTD / 147 NEW BOND STREET / LONDON, W.1 / Exhibition [typewritten:] DELACROIX / [printed:] Date [typewritten:] JUNE, JULY 1952 [printed:] Cat. No. [handwritten:] 53 / [printed:] Artist / Title [typewritten:] SUZANNE FOURMENT / [printed:] Name & Address of Owner [typewritten:] Professor Hans R. Hahnloser, / Kollerweg, / Berne. Switzerland
  • label: verso, top of frame, typewritten: Eugène Delacroix 80 / French 1798-1863 / SUZANNE FOURMENT, after Rubens. / Oil on canvas (ca. 1822/24) / Anonymous Lender
  • label: verso, top strecher: Kunstmuseum Luzern Ausstellung Hahnloser 1940 / Name: DELACROIX Eugène (Charenton-St-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris) / 38 Suzanne Fourment, 1828. Kopie nach Rubens im Louvre Inv. Nr. 2114. / Nicht sign. Öl, Lwd. 66 : 54 cm. / A Robaut, Eugène Delacroix, Paris 1884, Nr. 259, ,, Copies d'après Ru - / bens, 1, Portrait d'une dame de la Famille Boonen". / Ausstg. Meisterwerke aus Privatsammlungen, Museum Winterthur, / Aug. - Sept. 1922, Kat. Nr. 43. Exp. Centenaire E. Delacroix, Musée / du Louvre, Paris, Juni-Juli 1930. Ausstg. Künstlerkopien, Kunst - / halle Basel 1937, Kat. Nr. 14. / Vente posthume. Vente G. Arosa, Febr. 1878. Coll. H. Hecht.
  • label: verso, top right stretcher: [printed:] Kunstmuseum Bern 1963/64 / AUSSTELLUNG DELACROIX Nr. [typewritten:] 24
  • label: verso, top right stretcher: [printed:] Kunstmuseum Bern 1963/64 / AUSSTELLUNG DELACROIX Nr. / [typerwritten:] Prof. Hahnloser
  • label: verso, center stretcher: No. 2 [torn] 714 / [torn] croix / Portra [torn] d'apres Rubens / IE000
  • stamp: verso, middle of center stretcher, black ink: ZOLL / II 45 / [cross] [encircled]
  • stamp: verso, center strecher, over torn label, black ink: DOUANES [?] / [illegible text] [encircled]
  • label: verso, right side of frame: [printed:] AUSSTELLUNG / EUGÉNE DELACROIX / KUNSTHALLE BREMEN 23.2 - 26.4.1964 / KATALOG-NR. [handwritten, black ink:] 20
  • label: verso, lower left corner of strecher: [printed:] Photographie / Hermann-Linck / [handwritten, black ink:] No 55 Coll. AH / [printed:] Winterthur
  • stamp: verso, lower left of canvas, red ink: II / 68 [or 56?] [encircled]
  • stamp: verso, lower section of center stretcher, black ink: ZOLL / II 45 / [cross] [encircled]
  • label: verso, center strtecher: [printed:] EXPOSITION DELACROIX / Musee du Louvre et Bibliotheque Nationale / Juin-Julliet 1930/ Numero / Envoi de M [black ink:] [illegible text] Hahnlauser / Delacroix: Copie d'apres Rubens

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Delacroix's posthumous sale [through Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 17-29, 1864, lot 161, listed as “Portrait de la femme de Rubens (Musée du Louvre)”]; to Jean-Dominique Gustave Arosa; sold [through Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 25, 1878, lot 43, listed as "Portrait d'une dame de la famille Boonen, d'après Rubens (Musée du Louvre )”]; to Henri Hecht, Paris. P.A. Cheramy; sold [through Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 5, 1908, lot 185]; to M. Renard, sold [through Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 21, 1919, lot 26]; to R. Gerard, sold; to [Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, October 11, 1919], sold; to Dr. Arthur Hahnloser, Winterthur, November 11, 1919, by descent; to his son, Dr. Hans Hahnloser, Bern, 1936, sold [through Sotheby's, London, June 30, 1965, lot 2 9]; to [Zurich agent for Objets d' Art International]. [Spencer A. Samuels and Company, Ltd., New York, by 1967], sold; to Arthur K. Solomon, Cambridge, September 1967; the Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Trust, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.190
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Vente Eugène Delacroix, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, February 17-29, 1864), cat. no. 161
  • Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre complète de Eugène Delacroix, Chavanay Freres (Paris, France, 1885), no. 259
  • Tableaux Anciens et Modernes: Aquarelles -- Pastels -- Dessins, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, May 5, 1908), p. 94, lot 185
  • Tableaux Modernes: Pastels, Aquarelles, Dessins, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, June 21, 1919), p.13, lot 26
  • Ausstellung Von Meisterwerken Aus Privatsammlungen, exh. cat., Kunstverein Winterthur (Winterthur, Switzerland, 1922), p. 9, cat. no. 43
  • Paul Jamot, Centenaire du Romantisme: Exposition Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre (Paris, France, 1930), no. 255A
  • Künstlerkopien, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, 1937), p. 9, cat. no. 14
  • Die Hauptwerke Der Sammlung Hahnloser, exh. cat., Holbein-Verlag (Basel, 1940), p. 17, cat. no. 38
  • Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863, auct. cat., Wildenstein & Company (London, 1952), pp. 22-23, cat. no. 53
  • Gilberte Martin-Méry, Delacroix: Ses Maîtres, Ses Amis, Ses Élèves, exh. cat., Delmas (Bordeaux, 1963), p. 7, cat. no. 13
  • Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bremen (Bremen, 1964), cat. no. 20
  • Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, 1964), cat. no. 24
  • Important Old Master Paintings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, 1965), p. 25, lot 29
  • Barbara Ehrlich White, "Delacroix's Painting Copies after Rubens", The Art Bulletin (March 1967), pp. 37-51, pp. 37, 50; fig. 27
  • The Portrait: 400 Years of Reflection, auct. cat., Spencer A. Samuels & Co., LTD (New York, 1967), cat. no. 11, repr.
  • Lee Johnson, "Four Rediscovered Portraits by Delacroix", The Burlington Magazine (January 1970), 112, no. 802, pp. 2-7, p. 4, repr p. 5
  • Roxane Landers Althouse, ed., Rubenism, exh. cat., Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art (Providence, 1975), pp. 44, 242, 256, 257, cat. no. 80, repr.
  • Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugene Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 1816-1831, The Clarendon Press (Oxford & New York, 1981), vol. I, pp. 16, 63, cat. no. 19; vol. II, pl. 17
  • Copier Créer: De Turner À Picasso: 300 Œuvres Inspirées Par Les Maîtres Du Louvre, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1993), p. 236, repr p. 242
  • Klaus Schrenk, ed., Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe/Kehrer Verlag (Karlsruhe/Heidelberg, 2003), p. 174, repr.
  • Richard R. Brettell and Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, Gauguin and Impressionism, exh. cat., Kimbell Art Museum / Ordrupgaard (Fort Worth TX / Copenhagen, 2005), p. 348
  • Colleen Walsh, "Competing visions" (The Harvard Gazette, November 19, 2021), https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/11/as-the-game-approaches-ivy-league-curators-discuss-artistic-rivalries/, accessed November 19, 2021
  • Colleen Walsh, "Competing Visions: Ahead of 'The Game,' art historians discuss a different kind of rivalry", The Harvard Gazette (https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/11/as-the-game-approaches-ivy-league-curators-discuss-artistic-rivalries/, November 19, 2021)

Exhibition History

  • Oeuvres d’Eugène Delacroix, Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 08/13/1864 - 08/13/1864
  • Exposition Eugène Delacroix: Peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins, gravures, documents, Musée du Louvre, Paris Cedex 01, 06/01/1930 - 09/30/1930
  • Künstlerkopien, Kunsthalle Basel, 09/18/1937 - 10/17/1937
  • Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863, Wildenstein Gallery, London, 06/01/1952 - 07/01/1752
  • Delacroix, ses Maitres, ses Amis, ses Eleves, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, 05/17/1963 - 09/30/1963
  • Eugène Delacroix, Kunstmuseum Bern, 11/16/1963 - 01/19/1964
  • The Portrait: 400 Years of Reflection, Spencer Samuels, 03/15/1967 - 04/08/1967
  • Rubenism, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, 01/30/1975 - 02/23/1975

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