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A Woman Wearing Moroccan Costume (formerly 'A North African Jewess')

Maker

(artist)
1820-1889 (Life dates)

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1798-1863

Title

A Woman Wearing Moroccan Costume (formerly 'A North African Jewess')

Date of Production

19 August 1847

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 27 cm
Width: 19.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.419

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Judaism




Provenance

Charles F. Worel (antiques dealer, London); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), December 1964 (£1,100); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983

Literature

Prat, Louis-Antoine, 'Drawings by Delacroix: Two Errors, Three Discoveries' in 'Drawing', May-June 1992 - pp. 28-32; XIV, 1
pp. 28-29
fig. 1 on p. 28
reattributed to Hedouin

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 16, p. 40
ill. on p. 41 (b&w) and np (colour)
as Delacroix

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
no. 106, p. 98
ill. on p. 109
as Delacroix ...More

Braham, Helen, The Princes Gate Collection [all Princes Gate works, the exhibited drawings listed separately as Selection A and Selection B], London, 1981
Appendix III, p. 138
as Delacroix

Seilern, Count Antoine, Recent Acquisitions at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1971; VI
no. 419
pl. XXX
as Delacroix ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, graphite: “99”; lower centre, brown watercolour, dated: “19 Aout 47-”. Verso: upper right corner, blue ink, circled: “PS”; upper right, graphite: “112 e”; centre, red chalk, information from Jacques Mathey in 1961: “1322/4 / 3 croquis datés / des lots #1629?”; lower half of sheet, graphite: “Voyage du Delacroix au Maroc en 1832 orangerie 1933 / Mariée Juive pl. 13. / Voir aquarelle o28/o23 Exposée par le Louvre / à l’Orangerie en 1933 sous le no 13 Refr. au cat. / cette aquarelle a aussi été exposée au Louvre mème / en 1930 sous le no 318 et a passi à la vente / de l’atelier sous no 553_ / Ex coll. R. Galichon qui la leguée au Louvre / Dimensions de la presente aquarelle o26g / 0195”.

Collector's mark: none.

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