Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

A view of a farmhouse near Dieppe

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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
A view of a farmhouse near Dieppe
dated '30 aout 54'
pencil, watercolor heightened with white on dark brown paper
9.3/8 x 12.3/8 in. (239 x 314 mm.)
Provenance
The artist's studio stamp (L. 838a)
Baron Vitta, Paris.
With Galeries les Tourettes, Paris.
With Marcel Guiot, Paris, 1963.
With Stephen Spector, New York.
Exhibited
Calais, Musée des Beaux-Arts, L'aquarelle romantique en France et en Angleterre, 1961, no. 35.

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.

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