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Faust et Mephisto dans la nuit du Sabbat (recto); Studies of horses (verso)
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FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (1798-1863)
Faust et Mephisto dans la nuit du Sabbat (recto); Studies of horses (verso)
brush, black ink and grey wash (recto); graphite (verso)
23 x 34,8 cm. (9 x 13 ¾ in.)
Faust et Mephisto dans la nuit du Sabbat (recto); Studies of horses (verso)
brush, black ink and grey wash (recto); graphite (verso)
23 x 34,8 cm. (9 x 13 ¾ in.)
Provenance
Estate of the artist, with his studio stamp (L. 838a); his posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22-27 February 1864, possibly lot 389 ('scène de sabbat') or lot 391 ('diverses compositions pour les lithographies de Faust').
Karl & Faber, Munich, 13-14 June 1985, lot 346.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Karl & Faber, Munich, 13-14 June 1985, lot 346.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
A. Robaut, L'oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, Paris, 1885, no. 1535.
A. Moreau, Delacroix et son œuvre: avec des gravures en fac-simile des planches originales les plus rares, Paris, 1873, no. 388, p. 324.
L. Delteil, Delacroix - The Graphic Work, San Francisco, 1997.
A. Moreau, Delacroix et son œuvre: avec des gravures en fac-simile des planches originales les plus rares, Paris, 1873, no. 388, p. 324.
L. Delteil, Delacroix - The Graphic Work, San Francisco, 1997.
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers - Druckgraphick und vorbereitende Zeichnungen aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, exh. cat., 26 March -24 October 1999, p. 20. (ill.), pp. 88-89.
Engraved
for J. W. Goethe, Faust, Paris, 1828, ill. 16 (no page number).
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