DrawingsFrench19th century

Portrait of Frédéric Villot

c. 1840

Artists

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène DelacroixArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk, black crayon, with touches of graphite and white chalk corrections, scraping and extensive stumping, on cream wove paper, darkened

Culture

French

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

33.3 × 23.7 cm (13 1/8 × 9 5/16 in.) frame: 54.6 × 44.5 cm (21 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Artist's studio; his posthumous sale, Paris, 17-24 February 1864; A. Robaut; J. F. Gigoux; his sale, Paris, 1882; Théodore Duret; César M. de Hauke, sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949, inv. no. 1949.6

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