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

The Coast of Spain at Salabrena

細節

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
The Coast of Spain at Salabrena
inscribed and dated in pencil 'Salabrena [sic] 19 jr. Près d'Almerie' (lower left) and with the stamped initials 'E.D' (Lugt 838a)(lower right)
pencil and watercolour on paper
6.1/8 x 9.5/8 in. (15.6 x 24.3 cm.)
Executed in January 1832

出版

L. Johnson, Delacroix pastels, London, 1995, no. 21.

拍場告示

Please note the following additional provenance for this work:
Collection Marillier, Paris.

拍品專文

The present work was executed on 19 January 1832 during Delacroix's Mediterranean passage from Toulon to Tangier, five days before reaching Tangier for the start of his North African tour. On the same day, Delacroix made a similar view, slightly more distant from the shore, which is now in the Musée du Louvre (see L. Johnson, op. cit., no. 22).

These views, including a pastel, The Sea at Sunset, (see L. Johnson, op. cit., no. 20) are some of Delacroix's earliest securely datable sky and landscape studies.