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Head of a Woman

Attributed to Eugène Delacroix
1798-1863

Head of a Woman

ca. 1824
7 9/16 x 5 13/16 inches (192 x 148 mm)
Watercolor and opaque watercolor over graphite.
2017.70

Thaw Collection.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower right with estate stamp, "E.D."
Associated names
Robaut, Alfred, 1830-1909, former owner.
Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne, 1859-1927, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 102, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw. Part II. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, no. 39.
Escholier, Raymond. Delacroix, Peintre, Graveur, Écrivain, Paris: H, Floury, 1926, p. 121, ill.
Robaut, Alfred. L'Oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969, no. 94, ill.
Johnson, Lee. The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, 1816-1831. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981, vol. 1, p. 91.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department