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Dead Dog,
ca. 1830
Eugène Delacroix, 1798–1863; born Clarenton-Saint Maurice, France; died Paris, France
1996-291
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Title
Dead Dog
Dates
ca. 1830
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
41.5 x 87.5 cm (16 5/16 x 34 7/16 in.)
frame: 70 × 115 × 8.4 cm (27 9/16 × 45 1/4 × 3 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
1996-291
Place Made
Europe, France
Culture
Delacroix sale, Paris, February 1864, lot 212; Baron Paul de Laage, Paris; Paris Hôtel Drouot, 23 May, 1873, lot 15, to Soutzo; Sedelmeyer sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 30 April, 1877, lot 26, to Perreau; Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne; bought 25 August, 1921, by Rudolf Staechelin (1881-1946), Basel; by descent to his son, Peter Staechelin, Basel; W. M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York; 1996 purchase by Princeton University Art Museum.
Etude d'apres un chien mort
- Exposition des œuvres d'Eugène Delacroix, (Paris: J. Claye, 1864)., no. 12
- Alfred Robaut, L’oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies, (Paris: Charavay Frères, 1885)., no. 459, p.122 (illus.)
- Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin: Gedächtnis-Ausstellung zum 10. Todesjahr des Sammlers, (Basel, Switzerland: Universität Basel, 1956)., no. 2 (illus.)
- Fondation Rodolphe Staechelin: de Corot à Picasso, (Musée national d'art moderne (France). Société des amis, 1964)., no. 1 (illus.)
- Lee Johnson, The paintings of Eugene Delacroix: a critical catalogue, (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1981-1989)., Vol. 1: p. 35, cat. no. 58; Vol. 2: pl. 49
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1996," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 56, no. 1/2 (1997): p. 75-115., p. 110 (illus.), p. 112
