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FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (1798-1863)
Cheval en liberté
numbered 35 (upper left) and with inscription Par Eug. Delacroix. / FV (verso)
pen and brown in on paper
20,2 x 30,4 cm. (8 x 12 in.)
Provenance
Marie-Joseph Frédéric Villot (1809-1875), Paris; then by descent to his son, Georges Paul Villot (1836-1894), Paris and Saint Petersburg; and possibly by inheritance to his wife, Maria Villot-Danilovsky, Saint Petersburg.
Arthur Hahnloser (1870-1936) and Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler (1873-1952), Winterthur; and by descent to their son, Prof Hans Robert Hahnloser (1899-1974), Winterthur and Bern.
Kornfeld Galerie, Bern, 25 June 1992, lot 299.
With Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen.
Acquired from the above in 1997; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
A. Robaut, L’Œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix - Peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies, Paris, 1885, p. 189, no. 704 (ill.).
Exhibited
Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Eugène Delacroix, November 1963 - January 1964, no. 177 (cat. by F. Baumann and H. Wagner).
Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), February - April 1964, p. 199, no. 251 (cat. by G. Busch and H. Spielmann).
Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Europäische Meisterwerke aus Schweizer Sammlungen, August - October 1969, pp. 10-11, no. 41 (cat. by G. Hopp).
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