A Horse Hitched to a Post

Eugène Delacroixc. 1820

Details

Title: A Horse Hitched to a Post
Creator: Eugène Delacroix
Date Created: c. 1820
Physical Dimensions: overall: 19.4 x 21.3 cm (7 5/8 x 8 3/8 in.) framed: 28.7 x 31.1 x 5.1 cm (11 5/16 x 12 1/4 x 2 in.)
Provenance: (Delacroix posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 1864, no. 84); Etienne-François Haro [1827-1897]; his son, Henri Haro [1855-1911]; Haro family; (sale, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 22 February 1934, no. 13).[1] Dubourg collection; acquired 1959 by (Wildenstein & Co., New York);[2] sold 1960 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1994 to NGA. [1] Provenance from Lee Johnson, _The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue_, 6 vols., Oxford, 1981: 1:228, M3. [2] Wildenstein date and source of acquisition according to a letter dated 14 December 1998, in NGA curatorial files. This may be Jacques Dubourg (1897-1981), an art dealer in Paris from the late 1920s.
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on canvas

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