Delacroix. Ses maîtres, ses amis, ses élèves. Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1963, no. 145 / Eugene Delacroix. Arbeiten auf Papier. Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Graphik. Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1987, cat. no. 108
Literature and illustration
auction: Important 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours. London, Sotheby's, 24.6.1998, cat.-no. 140 / Auction: Tableaux et Dessins Anciens et du XIXe si%C3%A8cle. Paris, Sotheby's. 26.6.2014, cat.-no. 88
The Smuggler's Flight (”La fuite du contrebandier”).
India ink washed, pen and pencil on paper on cardboard. 10,9 × 16,3 cm
(4 ¼ × 6 ⅜ in.). Lower right with the studio stamp Lugt 838a. On the cardboard backing a label of the 1987 Zurich exhibition (see below). Catalogue raisonné: Robaut 1530 (with differing dimensions). Pale time staining. [3078]
Provenance
Estate of the artist / Auction: Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17-29 February 1864, no. 456 (as part of the collection) / J.-D.- G. Arosa / Auction: Arosa Collection, Paris, 27 February 1884, no. 67F / Georges Heim-Gairac, Paris / Private collection, Great Britain
Delacroix. Ses maîtres, ses amis, ses élèves. Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1963, no. 145 / Eugene Delacroix. Arbeiten auf Papier. Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Graphik. Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1987, cat. no. 108
Literature and illustration
auction: Important 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours. London, Sotheby's, 24.6.1998, cat.-no. 140 / Auction: Tableaux et Dessins Anciens et du XIXe si%C3%A8cle. Paris, Sotheby's. 26.6.2014, cat.-no. 88
