Delacroix 2018

9. Interior of a Moroccan House Intérieur d’une maison morocaine

1832 Watercolor and pencil on paper 4½ x 6 3 ⁄ 8 inches (11.5 x 16.4 cm) Estate sale stamp lower left: Lugt 838a Inscribed at top: vigne/plus recul (é) ; at bottom: blanc

PROVENANCE Delacroix sale 1864, part of lot 572 ( Etudes de croquis de personnages, costumes, intérieures, details d’architecture, etc.) ; Collection Edgar Degas; His second sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, November 15–16, 1918, no. 89; Purchased by Doctor Georges Viau (1855–1939); His sale, Succession Viau , Paris, Hôtel Drouot, December 11, 1942, part of lot 22 ( Architecture dans un jardin ). LITERATURE C. Ives, S.A. Stein, J.A. Steiner, and others, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas— A Summary Catalogue , New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, no. 266; Arama 2006, p. 208 (illustrated as Le Kiosque dans les jardins du Palais royal de Meknès , private collection). 

EXHIBITION Paris 1930, no. 337.