Study of Arms and Legs of Christ Crucified

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1850

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
after Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Title: Study of Arms and Legs of Christ Crucified
Origin: France
Date: 1845–1855
Medium: Pen and sepia ink on buff paper
Dimensions: 217 × 324 mm
Credit Line: Worcester Sketch Fund
Reference Number: 1962.353
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E10.
Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, 1999), pp. 150-151, fig. 6.8.

Paris, Palais du Louvre, “Exposition Eugène Delacroix,” June-September 1930, cat. 742.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Eugène Delacroix,” October 18-November 18, 1944, cat. 80.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 87, pl. XXXVI.
“Nineteenth Century French Drawings,” no. 34.

Estate of the artist [Lugt suppl. 838a]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 22-27,1864, lot 636 or 637. (Emmanuel?) Pontremoli (died 1956) [according to Paris 1930]. Pierre Geismar, Paris [Lugt Suppl. 2078a]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 15, 1928, lot 11. Georges Aubry (died 1950), by June 1930 [Paris 1930]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 11, 1933, lot 40, to Lippmann [according to annotated sales catalogue]. Winslow Ames (died 1990), New London, Conn. [according to Joachim 1979]. Lt. Comdr. John S. Thatcher, Washington D.C., by October 1944 [New York 1944] Sold by Durlacher Brothers, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.

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