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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
French, 1798–1863
Abd-er-Rahman II, Sultan of Morocco
c. 1844
Image Caption
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Abd-er-Rahman II, Sultan of Morocco, c. 1844, graphite on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1415
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 9 9/16 x 6 3/16 in. (24.3 x 15.7 cm)
Object Number
1955.1415
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Robaut, Alfred. Eugène Delacroix, fac-simile de dessins et croquis originaux, 2. Paris. 1865. Philippe Burty.. Maîtres et petits-maîtres.. Paris: G. Charpentier.. 1877.. Paris.. Exposition des Dessins du Siècle.. Feb. 1884.. Robaut, Alfred. L'oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix. Paris: Charavay. 1885. Elie Lambert.. Histoire d'un tableau, l'Abd er Rahman, sultan de Maroc, de Delacroix. Collection Hespérusm 14,. Paris,. 1953.. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966.
Provenance
Eugène Delacroix (sale stamp, L. 838a, at bottom right; sale Paris, Petit and Tedesco, February 17–29, 1864, no. 350 {Muley-Abd-er-Rahman entouré de sa garde. Fragment de la composition});* Alfred Robaut; P. A. Cheramy, Paris; S. Mayer, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1916).
*"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.