Eugène Delacroix
Two Views of a Young Arab
1831
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Eugène Delacroix
Two Views of a Young Arab
1831
Physical Qualities
Watercolor over graphite on paper, Mount: 362 × 421 mm. (14 1/4 × 16 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 297 × 345 mm. (11 11/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection
Object Number
1976.27
Two views of the same young man wearing a turban and knee-length tunic fastened with a red belt. A sword hangs from a blue strap slung over his shoulder. The figure to the left is smaller than the one on the right and stands with one foot propped on a chair.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1976; Stefanie Maison & Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London; Palais Galliera, Paris, 16 March 1972, p. 6, no. 6; Gariel, Paris, 1864; Delacroix Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17-29 February 1864, no. 531.
Stefanie Maison and Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, "Nineteenth Century French Drawings," May 20 - June 18, 1976.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Sketches and Sketchbook Pages," April 25 - June 25, 1978.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, August 24 - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, November 19, 1979 - January 6, 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, February 8 - March 16, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 1 - June 22, 1980; Denver Art Museum, July 12 - August 24, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," October 14 - November 28, 1982.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection," May 9 - July 23, 1989.
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, "Delacroix: Le Voyage au Maroc," September 27, 1994 - January 15, 1995.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Parallels and Precedents: The George A. Lucas Collection in Context," August 23 - October 15, 1995.
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.
Denver Art Museum, "Near East to Far West: Fantasies of French American Colonialism" Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorodo, 5 March 2023- 28 May 2023.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Sketches and Sketchbook Pages," April 25 - June 25, 1978.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, August 24 - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, November 19, 1979 - January 6, 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, February 8 - March 16, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 1 - June 22, 1980; Denver Art Museum, July 12 - August 24, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," October 14 - November 28, 1982.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection," May 9 - July 23, 1989.
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, "Delacroix: Le Voyage au Maroc," September 27, 1994 - January 15, 1995.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Parallels and Precedents: The George A. Lucas Collection in Context," August 23 - October 15, 1995.
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.
Denver Art Museum, "Near East to Far West: Fantasies of French American Colonialism" Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorodo, 5 March 2023- 28 May 2023.
Stefanie Maison and Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, Nineteenth Century French Drawings, London: Stefanie Maison and Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1976, p. 4, no. 6, ill. plate 10.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, cover, pp. 27, ill.
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris. Delacroix: Le Voyage au Maroc. Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe: Flammarion, 1994, p. 152-153, no. 18, ill. p. 152.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 196-199, ill. p. 197.
Ongpin, Stephen, in association with Sophie Camu. Drawing Inspiration: Sketches and Sketchbook Pages of the 19th and 20th Centuries. London: Stephen Ongpin, 2016, cat. 4, fig. 1, ill.
Henneman, Jennifer R. Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2023. p. 50, ill.
Inscribed: Recto of mount: lower margin, in graphite: "34 - 293"
Markings: CM: Eugène Delacroix estate (Lugt 838a)
