Africans Dancing in the Street
DrawingsFrench19th century

Africans Dancing in the Street

1832

Artists

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène DelacroixArtist
Classification
Drawings
Medium
Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
Culture
French
Century
19th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Department of Drawings

Dimensions

23.7 x 18.5 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

Provenance

The artist, gift; to comte Charles de Mornay, sold [through his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 29, 1877, lot 12]; to L[eon?] Gauchez. Baron Henri de Rothschild, Paris, sold [through Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, June 1931, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

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