Portrait of Count Charles de Mornay Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)

1837

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

unframed: 100 × 81 cm (39 3/8 × 31 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, B.A. 1929, L.H.D.H. 1967

Accession Number

1983.7.8

Culture

French

Period

19th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Count Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato, from 1837 (?), d. 1870; sale 'Palais de San Donato', Florence 15 March 1880, lot 784 ('Portrait d'homme'), about 2,000 fr. (R); Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, by 1935 (on loan to Museum of Belgrade by 1936) to 1963 (Paris); with Marlborough Fine Art, London, by 1964; the present owners, Nov. 1966.
Bibliography
  • Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, L'opera pittorica completa di Delacroix (Milan: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1972), 103–04, no. 291, fig. 291.
  • Temma Balducci, Heather Belnap Jensen, and Pamela J Warner, eds., Interior portraiture and masculine identity in France, 1789-1914 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011), 57–60, fig. 3.4.
  • Lee Johnson, The paintings of Eugéne Delacroix: a critical catalogue, 1–6 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981–89), 49, no. 231, vol. 2 & 3, fig. Pl. 51.
  • Lee Johnson, Delacroix (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963), 262, fig. 15.
  • Musée du Louvre, Centenaire d'Eugène Delacroix, 1798–1863: exposition placée sous le haut partronage du général de Gaulle et sous la présidence d'honneur de André Malraux, exh. cat. (Paris: Ministère de'tat affaires culturelles, 1963), no. 248.
  • Raymond Escholier, Delacroix, peintre, graveur, écrivain, 3 vols. (Paris: H. Floury, 1926–1929), 115.
  • Adolphe Moreau, E. Delacroix et son œuvre, avec des gravures en facsimilé des planches originales les plus rares (Paris: Librairie des bibliophiles, 1873), 237.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

portraits

Subject

man

Signed

Lower left: "Eug. Delacroix 1837"

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