Christ on the Sea of Galilee

Delacroix painted several versions of this composition, both as oil sketches and finished works, between about 1841 and 1855 (L. Johnson, he Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A critical catalogue, Oxford, 1986, III, pp. 232-238). The present drawing is closest to the earliest finished version of circa 1841 now in the Portland Art Museum, Portland (L. Johnson, op. cit., no. 452, pl. 262).