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DELACROIX, Eugène (1798-1863). Autograph letter signed to an unnamed correspondent, Paris, 17 August 1847, expressing thanks for a letter sent during an exhibition at Marseilles and regretting that he cannot sell a painting, 'J'en aurais eprouvé un veritable chagrin, surtout après votre aimable insistance', saying that he is busy trying to buy a painting, and expressing his satisfaction at selling his picture 'Course d'arabes', and stressing his obligation to his correspondent, 2 pages, 8° (205 x 132mm), integral blank.
An unpublished letter throwing light on the sale of his painting 'Arab Cavalry practising a Charge', 'Je suis assez heureux pour pouvoir disposer d'une Course d'arabes ou Fantasia, comme je l'ai vue exécuter tant de fois au Maroc'. The picture was painted in 1832 but appears to have remained with the artist for 15 years, when it was probably bought by the Comte de Mornay, as it was resold, with six others by Delacroix from the de Mornay collection, on 13 January 1850. It was possibly bought by Delacroix for 300 francs, before it entered the collection of Alfred Bruyas in 1851. Bruyas in turn gave it to the town of Montpellier, where it is now found in the Musée Fabre. See Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix (Oxford 1986), vol.III no.351.
An unpublished letter throwing light on the sale of his painting 'Arab Cavalry practising a Charge', 'Je suis assez heureux pour pouvoir disposer d'une Course d'arabes ou Fantasia, comme je l'ai vue exécuter tant de fois au Maroc'. The picture was painted in 1832 but appears to have remained with the artist for 15 years, when it was probably bought by the Comte de Mornay, as it was resold, with six others by Delacroix from the de Mornay collection, on 13 January 1850. It was possibly bought by Delacroix for 300 francs, before it entered the collection of Alfred Bruyas in 1851. Bruyas in turn gave it to the town of Montpellier, where it is now found in the Musée Fabre. See Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix (Oxford 1986), vol.III no.351.