Delacroix 2018

2. Standing Female Nude Seen from Behind Académie de femme nue

Pencil on paper 9¼ x 6 3 ⁄ 8

inches (23.5 x 16.5 cm.) Estate sale stamp lower right: Lugt 838a

PROVENANCE Delacroix sale 1864, part of lot 653 ( Etudes de têtes et d’académies d’hommes et de femmes, d’après des photographies (. . .) 74 feuilles) or of lot 661 ( Un carton contenant des académies et des études d’après la bosse (. . .) 70 feuilles) ; Collection Paul-Arthur Chéramy; His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, May 5–7, 1908, no. 335; Dr. Willi Raeber, Basel, as of 1964; Galerie Gabriel Terrades, Paris, as of 2011.

LITERATURE Robaut, part of no. 1905 or 1922.

EXHIBITIONS Bremen, Kunsthalle, Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863, February 23– April 16, 1964, no. 103, p. 147 illustrated; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Delacroix, An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Lithographs , October 1–November 10, 1964, no. 81.