Abd-er-Rahman II, Sultan of Morocco

1810–63

Medium	pencil on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 9 9/16 x 6 3/16 in. (24.3 x 15.7 cm)
Object Number	1955.1415
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Abd-er-Rahman II, Sultan of Morocco, 1810–63, pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1415

Select Bibliography

Paris.. Exposition des Dessins du Siècle.. Feb. 1884.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Robaut, Alfred. Eugène Delacroix, fac-simile de dessins et croquis originaux, 2. Paris. 1865. Philippe Burty.. Maîtres et petits-maîtres.. Paris: G. Charpentier.. 1877.. Elie Lambert.. Histoire d'un tableau, l'Abd er Rahman, sultan de Maroc, de Delacroix. Collection Hespérusm 14,. Paris,. 1953.. Robaut, Alfred. L'oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix. Paris: Charavay. 1885. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

Eugène Delacroix (sale stamp, L. 838a, at bottom right; sale Paris, Petit and Tedesco, February 17–29, 1864, no. 350 {Muley-Abd-er-Rahman entouré de sa garde. Fragment de la composition});* Alfred Robaut; P. A. Cheramy, Paris; S. Mayer, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1916). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.