Four Sketches of Arab Men

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Prints and Drawings

1832

Eugène Delacroix
French, 1798-1863

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Title: Four Sketches of Arab Men
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1832–1863
Medium: Watercolor and graphite, on tan wove paper, tipped onto cream board
Dimensions: 18.4 × 26.9 cm (7 1/4 × 10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Francis H. Hardy in memory of her Husband
Reference Number: 1960.822
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Agnes Mongan, “Souvenirs of Delacroix’s Journey to Morocco in American Collections,” Master Drawings, I (Summer 1963), pp. 20-31.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E5.

London, “Eugene Delacroix: An Exhibition,” 1964, cat. 121.
Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe, “Delacroix in Morocco,” September 27, 1994-January 15, 1995, p. 144, cat. 8 (ill.).

Estate of the artist [Lugt suppl. 838a]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 22-27, 1864, lot 535. Baron (Joseph?) Vitta (died 1942), [according to New York 1959 auction cat.]. Sold by Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to Samuel Sair, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [according to New York 1959 auction cat.]; sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, December 9, 1959, lot 13. Sold by Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1960.

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