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The Three Maries at the Sepulchre,
1862
Eugène Delacroix, 1798–1863; born Clarenton-Saint Maurice, France; died Paris, France
x1941-114
By contrast with Ingres’s meticulous preparatory approach, the painter Delacroix worked out his preliminary ideas in flurried compositional sketches such as this example, which belongs to a group of ten small pen and ink religious drawings. This episode, derived from the Gospel of Mark, occurred after the resurrection of Christ, when three holy women, including Mary Magdalene, beheld an angel seated next to Christ’s empty tomb. With the utmost linear economy, Delacroix conveyed the emotional intensity and human drama of the scene. Like most of the drawings in the group, this sketch was not used for a subsequent painting.
Information
Title
The Three Maries at the Sepulchre
Dates
1862
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
13.6 x 20.8 cm. (5 3/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1941-114
Inscription
in ink, lower right: 12 janvier 1862
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in red, lower center: E. D [838a]
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.;
- Lee Johnson, Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863, (Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto?, 1962)., no. 13; p. 35 (illus.)
- 19th and 20th century French drawings from the Art Museum, Princeton University: an introduction, (Princeton, NJ: Distributed by Princeton University Press, 1972)., pp. 40, 93, cat. no. 57; p. 41 (illus.)
- Martin L. H. Reymert and Robert J. F. Kashey, Christian imagery in French nineteenth century art 1789-1906, (New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1980)., cat. no. 80; p. 236-37 (illus.)
- Barbara T. Ross, "A prime teaching collection at Princeton: The Platt and Mather drawings," Master Drawings 38, no. 3 (Autumn, 2000): p. 303-310., fig. 1, 304 (illus.)
