Delacroix 2018

16. Studies after Rembrandt’s Descent from the Cross and Death of the Virgin Etudes d’après La Déposition et La mort de la Vierge par Rembrandt

Pencil on paper 10 1 ⁄ 8 x 7 5 ⁄ 8

inches (25.8 x 19.5 cm) Estate sale stamp lower center: Lugt 838a

PROVENANCE Delacroix sale 1864, part of lot 639 ( Etudes d’après Rembrandt 4 feuilles ); Anonymous sale, Paris, Muizon-Rieunier, Hôtel Drouot, December 11, 2017, lot 71.

LITERATURE Robaut, part of no. 1961.

This drawing combines studies after two engravings by Rembrandt The Descent from the Cross of 1633 and The Death of the Virgin of 1639.

Rembrandt, Descent from the Cross , 1864, engraving