Eugène Delacroix
Studies of a Young Greek Soldier (possibly one of the studies for the portrait of Count Palatiano)
1825
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Eugène Delacroix
Studies of a Young Greek Soldier (possibly one of the studies for the portrait of Count Palatiano)
1825
Physical Qualities
Graphite, Sheet: 205 x 286 mm. (8 1/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Wilmer Hoffman
Object Number
1955.30.5
Three studies of the same man in different poses wearing a Greek costume.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1955; Wilmer Hoffman (1899-1954), Baltimore and Charleston, SC, 1935
Maurice Sérullaz et al, Inventaire général des dessins école française: dessins d'Eugène Delacroix, Vol. I, Paris, 1984, p. 99-101, nos. 114-124. Illustrates similar drawings designated as 'preparatory' to the Cleveland portrait.
Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Eugène Delacroix, Paris, 1885.
Susan Strauber, 'Delacroix Drawings and the False Estate Stamp', Journal of the History of Collections, 3:1 (1991), pp. 61-88.
Susan Strauber, 'Delacroix Drawings and the False Estate Stamp II: Topography and Chronology of the Faux Cachet', Journal of the History of Collections, 3:1 (1993), pp. 129-163.
Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Eugène Delacroix, Paris, 1885.
Susan Strauber, 'Delacroix Drawings and the False Estate Stamp', Journal of the History of Collections, 3:1 (1991), pp. 61-88.
Susan Strauber, 'Delacroix Drawings and the False Estate Stamp II: Topography and Chronology of the Faux Cachet', Journal of the History of Collections, 3:1 (1993), pp. 129-163.
Inscribed: RECTO: LL, estate stamp, (in red), 'ED' (Lugt Suppl., 838 or 838a?); VERSO: LL [illegible]; LR, graphite, 'GH17 [illegible] 28'h x 37 / 20 28 / 8'h 9 / 4'[illegible] / B 4'[illegible]'.
