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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.252
People
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title
Landscape (George Sand’s Garden at Nohant)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1842-1843
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/381056

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on gray wove paper
Dimensions
15.2 × 20.3 cm (6 × 8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower right, red ink stamp: ED (Delacroix estate sale; Lugt 838a)
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: 71[?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist's estate, possibly sold through his sale [Hotel Drouot, Paris, commissaires-priseurs Charles Pillet and Charles Lainné, February 22, 1864, lot 590?]. Léon Suzor, Paris (d.1955), by descent; to his heirs. Private collection, United States, sold [through Jill Newhouse LLC, New York]; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise Haskell Daly Fund, William W. Robinson Fund, The Donald Outerbridge & Robert M. Light Commemorative Drawing Purchase Fund, Marian H. Phinney Fund, and through the generosity of David Leventhal
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.252
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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