Nude Woman

1810–1863

Medium	pen and brown ink on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 6 5/8 x 4 3/16 in. (16.9 x 10.6 cm)
Object Number	1955.1420
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Nude Woman, 1810–1863, pen and brown ink on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1420

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. (Cat. by Ann Dumas et al.). Oct. 1, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998.. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing.. Prentice-Hall.. 1973.. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing, 2nd ed.. Prentice Hall.. 1976.. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. 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);* Edgar Degas (sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, November 15–16, 1918, lot 94, no. 1); Robert Sterling Clark. *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.