Delacroix 2018

3. Portrait of Madame Pierret Portrait de Madame Pierret

c. 1826 Pen and brown ink 8 3 ⁄ 8 x 12 3 ⁄ 4

inches (21.5 x 32.5 cm)

PROVENANCE Collection of Mme. Corneille Frédéric Vila, née Anne-Claire Pierret; Collection R. Escholier.

LITERATURE R. Escholier, Delacroix , Paris, 1826, Vol. I, p. 186, illustrated.

EXHIBITIONS Paris 1930, no. 541; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Ingres, Delacroix, Dessins, Pastels et Aquarelles , January–February 1936, no. 118, illustrated; Paris, Galerie Maurice Gobin, Exposition de peintures, aquarelles & dessins par E. Delacroix, 1798 – 1863 , November 26–December 18, 1937, no. 2. This is a portrait of Marguerite-Jeanne-Aimée Heidinger, the wife of Delacroix’s childhood friend Jean-Baptiste Pierret. Pierret became a functionary in the Ministry of the Interior.

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