About This Artwork

Eugène Delacroix
French, 1798-1863

The Turkish Rider, c. 1834

Gouache and watercolor, with scraping, selectively gum-varnished, on cream wove paper, laid down on tan wove paper
252 x 187 mm
Signed lower right: "Eug. Delacroix"
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1965.455

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, "Eugène Delacroix," March 6-April 15, 1885, cat. 285.

Kunstmuseum Bern, "Delacroix," November 16, 1963-January 19, 1964, cat. 169.

Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 12 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 134-35, cat. 66 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.

Frankfurt, Germany, the Städelsches Kunstinstitut and the Stadtische Galerie, "Delacroix: Works on Paper," September 23, 1987-January 4, 1988.

Publication History

Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre Complet de Eugène Delacroix, (Paris, 1885), no. 565 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1965-1966), pp. 3, 9, and 29 (ill.).

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E8.

David M. Cassidy, "Passing the Tradition," The Chicago Report (1996).

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26, 1 (2000), pp. 5-15, fig. 6.

Ownership History

Gustave Revenaz, Paris, by 1885 [Paris 1885]. Private Collection, Paris, by 1964 [Bern 1964]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1965.