拍品專文
Delacroix filled his sketchbooks with observations that he saw on his travels - both in far off lands and on his native soil. Our landscape study fits into the context of this type of work. It is closely based on a pencil drawing that Delacroix made at the end of May 1854 while visiting his cousin Pierre Antoine Berryer, a distinguished lawyer, at Augerville, about eighty kilometers south of Paris. For Delacroix's account of the visit, see Journal II. 183 ff. The drawing is on a leaf from a sketch book, now dismembered, which contained landscape studies made at Champrosay in 1847 as well as at Augerville in 1854 (Coll. Claude Aubry, Paris, exh. cat., Kyoto, Tokyo 1969, D-30e illustrated)" (L. Johnson, op. cit.)