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DAY & FABER master drawings

    Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (Saint-Maurice-en-Chalençon 1798 - 1863 Paris)

    Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise: mural design for the Chamber of Deputies, Palais Bourbon Library, Paris

    Description:

    c. 1844
    pencil
    210 x 240 mm
    Delacroix studio stamp (L.838a) lower centre

    Provenance:

    posthumous sale of Delacroix’s studio, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 22-27 February 1864, lot 270
    acquired at the above by M. Ch. Desavary, 245 fr.
    sold to M. Chéramy in 1887, 500 fr.
    Tyge Möller, Copenhagen
    M. and Mme Julien Cain
    from whom acquired in the 1960’s by a private collector, London
    thence by descent to the present owner

    Literature

    Robaut, Alfred, L'oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix : peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies, 1885, [Charavay frères, Paris], no. 852, other preparatory sketches: 853, 954
    Johnson, Lee, The paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue Vol V, 1989, [Clarendon Press, Oxford], p. 54

    Exhibitions

    Exposition Centennale de l’Art Français à Copenhague, Musée Royal de Copenhague, 15 May - 30 June 1914, no. 258, collection of Tyge Möller
    Exposition Eugène Delacroix : peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins, gravures, documents, Musée du Louvre, Paris, June - July, 1930, no. 393A, collection of M Cain
    Mémorial de l'exposition Eugène Delacroix, organisée au Musée du Louvre à l'occasion du centenaire de la mort de l'artiste', Paris, 1963, no. 371, illustrated

    Note:

    This drawing relates to a painting by Delacroix of the same subject in Cupola IIII 'La théologie' in the Library of the Palais Bourbon, now the National Assembly, Paris.

    Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise: mural design for the Chamber of Deputies, Palais Bourbon Library, Paris