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Lot Essay
The attribution was confirmed by Professor Lee Johnson who pointed out that the drawing depicts a view in the environs of Dieppe. After finishing the decoration of the Salon de la Paix at the Hotel de Ville in Paris in March 1854 Delacroix went to Dieppe with Jenny Le Guillou. They stayed at 6, quai Duquesne from 17 August to 26 September 1854.
A watercolor of the same size as the present sheet, executed eight days later, is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (A. Sérullaz et al., Delacroix, les dernières années, exhib. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris and elsewhere, 1998, no. 52.). Lee Johnson mentions a watercolor of the same day as the present one, executed higher above Dieppe, referred to by Delacroix in his Journal.
A watercolor of the same size as the present sheet, executed eight days later, is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (A. Sérullaz et al., Delacroix, les dernières années, exhib. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris and elsewhere, 1998, no. 52.). Lee Johnson mentions a watercolor of the same day as the present one, executed higher above Dieppe, referred to by Delacroix in his Journal.