Eugène DELACROIX (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798 - Paris 1863) - Lot 60

Eugène DELACROIX (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798 - Paris 1863) A montage of two drawings after figures by Goya 20.3 x 13.8 cm; 21.2 x 19.5 cm dimensions of montage: 51x 29.5 cm (vegetable paper glued to the edges of an old mount, insolated, holes in the center of one of them) Our two study sheets are based on Goya's capricho engravings: Top drawing, capricho 3 "Que viene el coco", capricho 58 "Tragata perro" (see: P. Fayos Perez, Goya's caprichos in XIXcentury France, Politics of the Grotesque, Madrid, 2024, p. 217, fig.III.7 and p. 393, fig. AIII.28, repr) We know of another drawing by Delacroix, using the same caprice 3, in the Musée du Louvre, RF10178r, see: work cited supra, p. 392, fig. D5 Bottom drawing, capricho 2 "El si pronuncian y la mano alargan all primero que llega", capricho 4 "Et de la rollona" and capricho 5 "Tara para cual" (see: opus cited supra, p. 238, fig.III.35 and p. 381, fig. AIII1, repr) We know of another drawing by Delacroix, using the same caprice 2, in the Musée du Louvre, RF10180r, (see: opus cité supra p. 380, fig. D1). Studio stamp lower left on the lower one (L.838a) Eugène DELACROIX (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798 - Paris 1863) A montage of two drawings after figures by Goya 20.3 x 13.8 cm; 21.2 x 19.5 cm dimensions of montage: 51x 29.5 cm (vegetable paper glued to the edges of an old mount, insolated, holes in the center of one of them) Our two study sheets are based on Goya's capricho engravings: Top drawing, capricho 3 "Que viene el coco", capricho 58 "Tragata perro" (see: P. Fayos Perez, Goya's caprichos in XIXcentury France, Politics of the Grotesque, Madrid, 2024, p. 217, fig.III.7 and p. 393, fig. AIII.28, repr) We know of another drawing by Delacroix, using the same caprice 3, in the Musée du Louvre, RF10178r, see: work cited supra, p. 392, fig. D5 Bottom drawing, capricho 2 "El si pronuncian y la mano alargan all primero que llega", capricho 4 "Et de la rollona" and capricho 5 "Tara para cual" (see: opus cited supra, p. 238, fig.III.35 and p. 381, fig. AIII1, repr) We know of another drawing by Delacroix, using the same caprice 2, in the Musée du Louvre, RF10180r, (see: opus cité supra p. 380, fig. D1). Studio stamp lower left on the lower one (L.838a)