Portrait of a young man in a wig

Details

Eugène-Victor-Ferdinand Delacroix (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris)
Portrait of a young man in a wig
numbered '1373' and possibly dated '1825'
pastel on blue paper
15 5/8 x 11 3/8 in. (39.6 x 28.8 cm.)

Provenance

Given by the artist to his housekeeper, Jenny Le Guillou, by whom given to
Henri-Joseph-Constant Dutilleux.
Henri Rouart; Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, 16-18 December 1912, lot 94.
Lerolle.
with Wildenstein, New York by 1961.

Literature

A. Robaut, L'oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, Paris, 1885, pp. 45, 481, no. 143, fig. 143.
L. Johnson, Delacroix Pastels, New York, 1995, pp., 70, 71, no. 12.

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Lot Essay

Lee Johnson considered this portrait to be Delacroix's first work done in pastel, and dates it to the summer of 1825 when the young artist was in England. It was one of about twenty works later given by Delacroix to his devoted housekeeper, Jenny Le Guillou (1801-1869), who had worked for him since 1835.

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