CIRCLE OF EUGÈNE VICTOR FERDINAND DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)

The drawing bears the stamp (Lugt 838), imitating that from the 1864 posthumous sale of Eugène Delacroix's works (Lugt 838a) and generally called the ‘Andrieu stamp’. This stamp is frequently found on drawings by Delacroix himself, notably on many drawings held at the Louvre, but also on drawings not by him and particularly on sheets by Pierre Andrieu (1821-1892), who was his assistant at the time of his last major Parisian projects. The inventor of the forged stamp was the art dealer Vuillier, located at 53 rue de Seine in Paris. Vuillier was a neighbor of Pierre Andrieu, and between the late 19th and early 20th Centuries he owned most of the drawings bearing this stamp which had come from Andrieu.