The most famous portrait of Eugène DELACROIX signed by Pierre PETIT.
Magnificent large format print depicting Delacroix in bust and profile; one of the most famous portraits of the French painter.
9.500€
Magnificent large format print depicting Delacroix in bust and profile; one of the most famous portraits of the French painter.
9.500€
Eugène DELACROIX (1798-1863)
Original photograph.
Vintage albumen print, signed in the margin by the photographer Pierre Petit.
Paris. 1862.
Magnificent large format print depicting Delacroix in bust and profile; one of the most famous portraits of the French painter.
The sitting in Pierre Petit's studio dates from 1862. We know of other portraits, in different poses, taken from the same sitting. Some of these are held at the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Carnavalet, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Print presented in a black wooden frame.
Formats: Print (sight size): 23 x 19 cm / Framed: 36 x 31 cm
Provenance: former collection of Georges Sortais.