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EugèneDelacroixVision(BiblicalScene)Pencilontracingpaperlaiddownoncardboard,320x256mmonrecto,lowercentre,redstamp:“E.D”[Lugt838aor838?]onverso,centreright,inscribedinred:“Delacroix102”;residueofredtapestripsProvenance:

Estateoftheartist(?)Possiblesale:VenteEugèneDelacroix,HôtelDrouot,Paris,17–29February1864(perstamp?)(…)Bylatest2012:CorneliusGurlitt,Munich/SalzburgFrom6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt

Bibliographicalreferences:

Lugt,Frits.LesMarquesdeCollectionsdeDessins&d’Estampes.1sted.,Amsterdam:VereenigdeDrukkerijen,1921;supplement,TheHague:MartinusNijhoff,1956.[nos.L.838a,L.838]www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/6699/total/1www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/6698/total/1(28September2015))

Primarysources:

BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt–possiblereferences:Salesledger1937–41: 14December1938[no.65] 20June1942[no.189] 15February1943[no.170]Salesledger1937–?: 20June1942[no.1578] 1942[no.1578] 15February1943[no.1578]

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Imports&exportsledger: September1941[fol.J.49] 17June1943[fol.J.72] 18June1943[fol.J.72]CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt–possiblereference: 15January1948[vol.12,fol.393ff.]

SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV41/07

Furthersourcesconsulted:

Exposition des œuvres d’Eugène Delacroix. Exh. cat., Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris,1864.Catalogue de la vente qui aura lieu par suite du décès de Eugène Delacroix. Auct. cat., HôtelDrouot,Paris,17–29February1864.Robaut,Alfred.L'œuvrecompletdeEugèneDelacroix:peintures,dessins,gravures,lithographies,1813–1863.Paris:CharavayFrères,1885.EugèneDelacroix.Exh.cat.,SalonPaulCassirer,Berlin,4November–4December1907.VonDelacroixbisPicasso:hundertGemälde,AquarelleundZeichnungenfranzösischerMeisterdesXIX.Jahrhunderts.Exh.cat.,KunsthandlungHugoPerls,Berlin,February–March1925.Handzeichnungen moderner Meister (= Auktion XLVIII). Auct. cat., Paul Graupe, Berlin, 11–12September1925.Escholier,Raymond.Delacroix:Peintre,Graveur,Écrivain.3vols.Paris:HenriFloury,1926–1929.ExpositionE.Delacroix.Exh.cat.,MuséeduLouvre,Paris,June–July1930.Roger-Marx, Claude. Dessins et Peintures des Maîtres du XIXe siècle à nos jours: Choix decinquantedessinsdeEugèneDelacroix.Paris:Braun,1933.Catalogue des tableaux, aquarelles et dessins par EugèneDelacroix composant la collectionM.GeorgesAubry.Auct.cat.,HôtelDrouot,Paris,11March1933.Sérullaz, Maurice. Dessins d'Eugène Delacroix: 1798–1863. 2 vols. Paris: Réunion des muséesnationaux,1984.Delteil,Loys.Delacroix:TheGraphicWork:ACatalogueRaisonné.1sted.,Paris: self-publ.,1908;transl.andrev.bySusanStrauber,SanFrancisco:AlanWofsy,1997.

CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeudePaume

Database“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”

Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”

GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogs

Lootedart.com

LostArt

RépertoiredesBiensSpoliés

RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie

VerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)

WittLibrary

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Note:It isuncleartodatewhetherthestamp“E.D”isthetrueDelacroixmark[Lugt838a]orthefalsemarkusedbytheartist’sassistantPierreAndrieu[Lugt838].Ifverifiedastheformer,thiswouldindicate that thewatercolourwas included in thesaleofDelacroix’estate in1864. In thatsale,drawings were listed by subject matter, sometimes in lots comprising numerous items, withdescriptive titles but withoutmeasurements or illustrations. It has not so far been possible toidentifythisparticulardrawinginthesalecatalogue.

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