About This Artwork
Eugène Delacroix
French, 1798-1863
Sketches of Algerian Menc. 1832
Pen and brown ink, with traces of graphite, on tan wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
205 x 302 mm
Gift of Mary and Leigh Block, 1988.141.24
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Eugène Delacroix, Vingt Aquarelles et Onze Dessins Reproduisant en Fac-Simile L’Album du Maroc de la Collection J. V... (Paris, 1928), no. 13.
Ownership History
Baron Joseph Vitta (died 1942), by 1928 [invoice; Delacroix 1928]. Otto Gerstenberg (died 1935), Berlin [invoice]; probably by descent to his daughter, Margarethe Scharf; probably sold to Fritz and Peter Nathan, Zurich, by 1965; sold to Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, September 1965 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1988.