Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)

Apollo slays Python

Price realised GBP 361,250
Estimate
GBP 300,000 – GBP 500,000
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Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)

Apollo slays Python

Price realised GBP 361,250
Closed: 12 Jun 2012
Price realised GBP 361,250
Closed: 12 Jun 2012
Details
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Apollo slays Python
with the wax posthumous sale seal (on the stretcher)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
25¾ x 23 5/8 in. (65.5 x 60 cm.)
Painted in 1850.
Provenance
The artist's studio sale, February 1864, lot 30.
Acquired at the above sale by Dauzats (1,000 francs).
Count of Villagonzalo, Paris, circa 1870.
By descent to a private collector.
Acquired from the above for a private collection, Madrid.
Literature
A. Robaut, L'oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, 1885, no. 1109.
L. Johnson, 'A new oil sketch by Delacroix for Apollo slays Python' in The Burlington Magazine, vol. XXIX, January 1988, pp. 35-36 (illustrated).
L. Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, Oxford, 1988, vol. V, pp. 128-129, no. 575 (illustrated vol. VI, pl. 50).
Exhibited
Madrid, Caixaforum, Eugène Delacroix, 18 October 2011- 15 January 2012; Barcelona, Caixaforum, 14 February - 20 May 2012, no. 147.
Sale room notice
Please note that the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the National Gallery, London, have requested the loan of this painting for their 2015 exhibition, "Delacroix and Modernity", curated by Patrick Noon.

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