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Delacroix rencontra cette danseuse anglaise, Madame Dalton, lors de son séjour outre-manche au cours de l'été 1825. Elle se mit à peindre sous son influence et exposa au Salon de 1827 un Paysage avec figures (no. 249), au moment où son ami Delacroix présente douze peintures dont La Mort de Sardanapale. Ce dernier réalisa un second portrait de cette jeune femme conservé dans la collection de madame Feilchenfeldt à Zürich en 1954 (Brême, op. cit., no. 130).
Delacroix met the English ballet dancer, Madame Dalton, during his stay in the United Kingdom during the Summer of 1825. Under his influence, she started painting and exhibited a landscape with figures at the Salon in 1827 (no. 249), at the moment when her friend Delacroix showed twelve paintings, including his Death of Sardanapalus. Delacroix made another portrait of the young woman, in 1954 in the Feilchenfeldt collection in Zurich (Bremen, op. cit., no. 130).
Delacroix met the English ballet dancer, Madame Dalton, during his stay in the United Kingdom during the Summer of 1825. Under his influence, she started painting and exhibited a landscape with figures at the Salon in 1827 (no. 249), at the moment when her friend Delacroix showed twelve paintings, including his Death of Sardanapalus. Delacroix made another portrait of the young woman, in 1954 in the Feilchenfeldt collection in Zurich (Bremen, op. cit., no. 130).
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