Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Le Christ au Mont des Oliviers

stamped with initials 'E. D. (L.838a); pencil and brown wash on paper
7½ x 11in. (19 x 28cm.)
Executed in 1826
Provenance
The artist's studio sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22-27 Feb. 1864, lot 371 (as pen and sepia) (sold for 715Fr to Sabatier and Gabriel)
Literature
A. Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Delacroix, Paris, 1885, no. 1524
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Daber, Pour mon plaisir, 1954, no. 7
Bern, Kunst Museum, Ausstellung Delacroix, 1963/4, no. 117

Lot Essay

The subject was first treated by Delacroix in 1824 when the Comte de Chabrol, Prefet de la Seine, commissioned a large picture of the Agony in the Garden, for the City of Paris, at a price of 2,400 Fr (now in the Church of Saint Paul, Saint Louis).

Robaut lists three further pictures, two watercolours, three pastels and four sepias, one ink drawing and 16 pencil drawings of the same subject.

Sold with a photocopy of a certificate from Alfred Daber dated 26 November 1953.

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