Jacob Struggling with the Angel

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Description

Drawing is on two pieces of beige antique laid paper joined in the center and mounted onto blue paper

Dimensions

56.6 x 38.3 cm (22 5/16 x 15 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Delacroix Atelier sale [Paris, Hôtel Drouot, February 17-29, 1864, part of lot 297]. Alfred Robaut (1830-1909), Douai and Paris. [Georges Aubry, Paris, from at least 1928 until at least 1930] [1]. [Maurice Gobin, Paris, c. 1933], [2] sold; to Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934 Notes [1] Georges Aubry is listed as the owner of the drawing in 1928, as in the catalogue for the 1930 "Exposition Eugène Delacroix," in "Eugene Delacroix: Zeichnungen Aquarelle und Pastelle," 1929, and in the 1933 text "Choix de Cinquante Dessins de Eugene Delacroix." [2] Correspondence between Philip Hofer and Paul Sachs from January 1934 indicate that Hofer purchased the drawings from Gobin in the summer of 1933.