About the Artwork
The Board of Censors Moves Out
1822
Eugène Delacroix
1798-1863
French
Unknown
Lithograph printed in black ink on white wove paper
Image, excluding caption: 7 5/8 × 12 1/4 inches (19.4 × 31.1 cm) Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 1/4 inches (26.4 × 36.2 cm)
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Museum Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund
2007.154
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on stone, lower center: Le Déménagement Inscribed, lithograph, lower left: de C. Motte; Inscribed, lower right: Miroir [Journal] Inscribed, in two columns, bottom margin, the names and corresponding numbers of the characters: N.º 1. Maison à louer. | 2. Pain-de-Sucre. | 3. Une Mazure. | 4. La Chaise. | 5. d'Outre-zèle. | 6. Cadet-Roussel. | 7. un Viellard. [sic] | 8. une Lourde-Oye. | 9. un Anonyme.
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2007-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Eugène Delacroix, The Board of Censors Moves Out, 1822, lithograph printed in black ink on white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund, 2007.154.
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