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EugèneDelacroix
Pagedecroquis,chasseàcourre(Study,MountedHunt)
Pencilandwatercolouronpaper,215x338mm
onrecto,lowerright,inscribedinpencil:“Delacroix”
onverso,studyoftwoArabmen;lowerright,inscribedinpencil:“Delacroix”
Provenance:
By1927:BaronJosephVitta(percat.rais.)
(…)
(ProbablyacquiredbyHildebrandGurlittinFranceinthe1940s)
BydescenttoCorneliusGurlitt,Munich/Salzburg
From6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt
Bibliographicalreferences:
Escholier,Raymond.Delacroix:peintre,graveur,écrivain,Paris:HenriFloury,1927[vol.1,pl.147]
Primarysources:
BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt–possiblereferences:
Salesledger1937–41:
14December1938[no.65]
Imports&exportsledger: September1941[fol.J.49]
17June1943[fol.J.72]
CorneliusGurlittPapers,Salzburg:
Photographs,no.7.1_F712[17June1943]
SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV41/131
Furthersourcesconsulted:
Exposition des œuvres d’Eugène Delacroix. Exh. cat., Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris,
1864.
Robaut,Alfred.L'œuvrecompletdeEugèneDelacroix:peintures,dessins,gravures,lithographies,
1813–1863.Paris:CharavayFrères,1885.
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EugèneDelacroix.Exh.cat.,SalonPaulCassirer,Berlin,4November–4December1907.
Cataloguedestableauxmodernes,aquarellesetdessins(…)provenantdelaCollectionV.[Vitta].
Auct.cat.,HôtelDrouot,27–28June1924.
VonDelacroixbisPicasso:hundertGemälde,AquarelleundZeichnungenfranzösischerMeisterdes
XIX.Jahrhunderts,Exh.cat.,KunsthandlungHugoPerls,Berlin,February–March1925.
Handzeichnungen moderner Meister (= Auktion XLVIII). Auct. cat., Paul Graupe, Berlin, 11–12
September1925.
ExpositionEugèneDelacroix.Exh.Cat.,MuséeduLouvre,June–July1930.
Roger-Marx, Claude. Dessins et peintures des Maîtres du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Choix de
cinquantedessinsdeEugèneDelacroix,Paris:Braun,1933.
Catalogue des tableaux, aquarelles et dessins par Eugène Delacroix composant la collection M.
GeorgesAubry.Auct.cat.,HôtelDrouot,Paris,11March1933.
Sérullaz, Maurice. Dessins d'Eugène Delacroix: 1798–1863. 2 vols. Paris: Réunion des musées
nationaux,1984.
Delteil,Loys. Delacroix:TheGraphicWork:ACatalogueRaisonné.1sted.,Paris:self-publ.,1908;
transl.andrev.bySusanStrauber,SanFrancisco:AlanWofsy,1997.
JosephVitta:Passiondecollection,Exh.cat.PalaisLumière,Évian,15February–1June2014.
CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt
CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeude
Paume
Database“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”
Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”
GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogs
Lootedart.com
LostArt
RépertoiredesBiensSpoliés
RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie
VerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)
WittLibrary
Note:
The first known owner of this work was the banker Baron Joseph Vitta (1860 Lyon–1942 Le
Breuil),animportantpatronoftheartsandacollectorwithaparticularinterestinDelacroix.His
collectionwaspartiallydispersedinaseriesofsales,includingbutnotlimitedtoanauctionatthe
HôtelDrouotin1924.
Vitta,whowasofItalian-Jewishdescent,livedinLeBreuil(nearVichy)inthedepartmentofAllier
from1939.Vittasufferedincreasedanti-SemiticdiscriminationundertheVichygovernment,and
diedshortlyaftertheGermanoccupationoftheFrenchFreeZonein1942.
ThepersonalpapersfoundinCorneliusGurlitt’sSalzburghomeincludeacollectionofabout2.400
photographs of artworks. Photograph no. 7.1_F712 is a reproduction of this work; inscribed on
verso, a statement of authenticity by art expert André Schoeller of Paris, 13, Rue de Téhéran,
dated 17 June 1943. This document shows that the work was on the market in the 1940s in
occupiedFrance;thereisahighprobabilitythatGurlittacquiredtheworkduringthatperiod.
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