Two Seated Moors in Conversation, and Studies of an Arm, Leg, and Hands

1810–63

Medium	pen and ink over pencil on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 7 5/8 x 11 1/8 in. (19.3 x 28.3 cm)
Object Number	1955.1414
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Two Seated Moors in Conversation, and Studies of an Arm, Leg, and Hands, 1810–63, pen and ink over pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1414

Select Bibliography

Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Robaut, Alfred. Eugène Delacroix, fac-simile de dessins et croquis originaux, 2. Paris. 1865. Ernest Chesneau.. "Eugène Delacroix.". L'Art, revue hebdomadaire illustrée, 8:2 (vol. 29 de la Collection).. (1882).. Michel, André. article on Delacroix Exhibition at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1885. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 1885. Kurt Badt.. Eugène Delacroix, Drawings.. Oxford: B. Cassirer.. 1946.. 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, part of no. 572);* 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.