Delacroix 2018

38. View of the North Wall of the Church of Valmont Abbey Mur nord de l’église de l’abbaye de Valmont 1834 Watercolor heightened with gouache over pencil on gray paper 6 x 8 inches (15.5 x 20.5 cm) Estate sale stamp lower right: Lugt 838a Red wax estate seal on reverse: E.D.

PROVENANCE Delacroix sale 1864, part of no. 597; Purchased by Louis-Auguste Bornot; His son Camille Bornot; His nephew Jacques Beraldi; Thence by descent.

LITERATURE Robaut, no. 1093 illustrated; A. Conan, “Delacroix à l’abbaye de Valmont,” in Art en France , Revue annuelle de l’art ancient et moderne , no. III, 1963, p. 274, and note 18. EXHIBITIONS Paris, Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Delacroix et la Normandie , October 1993–January 1994, no. 39, p. 37 illustrated; Lisieux, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Liseux, Delacroix-Riesener , 2005, no. 14, p. 16 illustrated; Paris, Galerie de Bayser, Delacroix en Normandie , 2011, no. 3 illustrated.

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