The Old Bridge at Nantes

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1827

Eugène Delacroix
French, 1798-1863

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Title: The Old Bridge at Nantes
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.: 1818–1863
Medium: Watercolor on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 20.3 × 30.3 cm (8 × 11 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Fund
Reference Number: 1963.392
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), pp. 51-52, no. 2F1.

Paris, Galerie Daber, “Peinture 1830-1940,” 1962, cat. 35.
College Park, Md., University of Maryland Art Gallery, “From Delacroix to Cézanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the 19th Century,” October 26-December 4, 1977, pp. 107 and 110, cat. 43 (ill.), cat. by Alain de Leiris and Carol Hynning Smith; traveled to Louisville, Ky., J.B. Speed Museum of Art, January 9-February 19, 1978; and Ann Arbor, Mich., University of Michigan Museum of Art, April 1-May 14, 1978.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983,” July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 128-129, cat. 57 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.

Estate of the artist, from 1863 [Lugt suppl. 838a]. Possibly Baron (Joseph?) Vitta (died 1942) [according to Joachim 1979]. Mame, Tours; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 14, 1960, Mame sale, lot 13. Sold by Stephen Spector, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.

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