Studies of Horses

1831

Medium	brush and brown, reddish-brown, yellow and gray ink on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 8 1/4 x 10 7/8 in. (20.9 x 27.7 cm)
Object Number	1955.1416
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Studies of Horses, 1831, brush and brown, reddish-brown, yellow and gray ink on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1416

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.. Never Say Die. May 17-Sept. 14, 1980. Essay by David S. Brooke for brochure, "Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth." Stephen Longstreet.. The Horse in Art.. Alhambra (CA): Borden Publishing.. 1966.. 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);* Barbedienne (L. 217a, stamped on paper and pasted to mount); Edgar Degas (L. 657, on mount; sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, March 26–27, 1918); Robert Sterling Clark. *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.