Two Studies of an Indian from Calcutta, Seated and Standing, c. 1823/1824

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 81

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 37.5 x 45.7 cm (14 3/4 x 18 in.)

framed: 51.1 x 59.5 x 3.8 cm (20 1/8 x 23 7/16 x 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

2006.128.19

Artists / Makers

Eugène Delacroix (painter) French, 1798 - 1863

Image Use

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Provenance

The artist; (his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17-19 February 1864, no. 186);[1] (Cadart & Luquet). Detrimont; purchased February 1844 by Henri Rouart; (his sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 9-11 December 1912, 1st day, no. 190); Lucien Henraux; by descent in his family; sold 1937 to (P. Rosenberg, Paris). Erich Maria Remarque [1898-1970], Porto Ronco, Ticino, Switzerland, by 1938 to at least 1957.[2] (Sam Salz, New York); purchased October 1960 by Paul [1907-1999] Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to Mrs. Mellon; life interest released 2006.

[1] Provenance from Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 1816-1831, 6 vols., Oxford, 1981: 1:no. 25. In the center of the middle stretcher bar is a red wax seal with the initials "ED." A torn label on the painting's stretcher includes the words: "[P]ropriétaire E.M. Remarque, Porto..."

[2] Remarque lent the painting to exhibitions and museums from 1938 through 1957.

Associated Names

Drouot, Hôtel
Galerie Manzi-Joyant
Mellon, Paul
Remarque, Erich Maria

Exhibition History

1864: Exposition des Oeuvres d'Eugene Delacroix, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1864, no. 311 of supplement to 3rd ed. of catalogue.

1885: Exposition Eugène Delacroix au profit de la souscription destinée è élever à Paris un monument à sa mémoire, École nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1885, no. 191.

1900: Exposition internationale universelle de 1900. Exposition centennale de l'Art français 1800-1889, Paris, 1900, no. 223.

1930: Exposition Eugène Delacroix. Centenaire du Romantisme, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1930, no. 12.

1938: Honderd Jaar Fransche Kunst, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1938, no. 114.

1939: Eugène Delacroix, Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1939, no. 304.

1943: Loan Exhibition of the Collection of Pictures of Erich Maria Remarque, Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1943, no. 3, repro.

1944: Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863. Loan Exhibition in Aid of the Quaker Emergency Service, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1944, no. 1, repro.

1949: Loan to display with permanent collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1949-1956.

1956: XXVIII Biennale di Venezia, Ala Napoleonica, Venice, 1956, no. 3 of the Retrospective of Eugène Delacroix.

1957: Loan to display with permanent collection, Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1957.

1963: Centenaire d'Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1963, no. 42.

Bibliography

1981: Johnson, Lee. The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue. 6 vols. Oxford, 1981: 1:22, no. 25; 2:pl. 20.