Alfred Dehodencq
Two Studies for ‘The Bullfight’
1849
Physical Qualities
Black fabricated chalk on paper, Image: 316 × 408 mm. (12 7/16 × 16 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Milch; and Samuel and Rose Mitchell Foundation Fund
Object Number
1982.17
Two studies of bull fighters, one half-length and frontal with face in profile; second full-length seen from behind.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1982; Shepherd Gallery, New York; Seiferheld and Company; Gabriel Séailles (1852-1922), Paris.
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
Suzanne L. Stratton, Equitable Gallery, New York, 'Spain, Espagne, Spanien: Foreign Artists Discover Spain 1800-1900', July 2-Sept. 18, 1993, p. 104, no. 18, ill. p. 105.
Shepherd Gallery, New York, 'French and Other European Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century', Winter 1981-82, no. 61.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
Suzanne L. Stratton, Equitable Gallery, New York, 'Spain, Espagne, Spanien: Foreign Artists Discover Spain 1800-1900', July 2-Sept. 18, 1993, p. 104, no. 18, ill. p. 105.
Shepherd Gallery, New York, 'French and Other European Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century', Winter 1981-82, no. 61.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
Gabriel Séailles, Alfred Dehodencq, Paris, 1910, p. 45, no. 31.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 192-93, ill.
Inscribed: RECTO: BLC, ink, 'En souvenir d'Alfred Dehodencq / Gabriel Séailles'.
