Peasant Women from the Region of the Eaux-Bonnes

Prints and Drawings

1845

Eugène Delacroix
French, 1798-1863

In the summer of 1845, Delacroix went to the Pyrenees to take the waters at the spa of Eaux-Bonnes near the Spanish border, where he delighted in the natural dignity of the local peasants and the beauty of their colorful dress.

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Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Title: Peasant Women from the Region of the Eaux-Bonnes
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.: 1845
Medium: Watercolor, with touches of gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 34 × 26.2 cm (13 7/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Helen Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1981.1
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Alfred Robaut, L’Oeuvre Complet de Eugène Delacroix (Paris, 1885), no. 1737 (ill.).
Ivan Bergerol and Arlette Serullaz, Eugène Delacroix: Aquarelles et lavis au pinceau (Paris, 1998).
“Maineri to Miro: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26 (2000), pp. 68-69 (ill.).

Paris, Quatre Chemins, “Delacroix Watercolors,” May-June 1946, cat. 24.
Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber, “Pour mon Plaisir,” 6-29 May 1954, cat. 8.
Kunstmuseum Bern, “Delacroix,” 16 November 1963-19 January 1964, cat. 192.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Homage to Women,” 1981.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Memorial Collection,” 1982
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. 132-133, cat. 59 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Museum of Art, 1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Acquisitions in the Regenstein Collection 1974-1989,” 2 February-8 May 1990.

Estate of the artist [Lugt 838a]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 22-27, 1864, Delacroix estate sale, lot 591, to M. Fanies [Robaut 1885]. Private collection, Paris, by 1963 [Bern 1963]. Sold by E. V. Thaw, New York, to the Art Institute, 1980.

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