About the Artwork
Ghost on the Terrace
1834
Eugène Delacroix
1798-1863
French
Unknown
Graphite pencil on tracing paper completely attached to a supporting sheet of wove paper
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 8 5/16 inches (27 × 21.1 cm) Sheet (support sheet): 11 13/16 × 9 1/8 inches (30 × 23.2 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund
47.32
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed in pencil, top right: 73 In blue pencil, center, verso: C. 18
Stamp in red ink, lower right: E.D (Lugt Suppl. 838a, Eugene Delacroix) Stamp in black ink, lower left: PG (Lugt Suppl. 2078b, Pierre Geismar)
Provenance
Alfred Sensier
March 26-17, 1918, Edgar Degas, Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France)
November 15, 1928, Pierre Geismar, Hotel Druot (Paris, France)
1947, M. Knoedler and Co.
1947-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Robaut, Alfred. L'oeuvre Complet de Eugene Delacroix. Paris, 1885, no. 570.
Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur..., vol. III. Paris, 1908, no. 105.
Catalogue des tableaux modernes et anciens, aquarelles, pastels, dessins composant la collection Edgar Degas. Paris, 1918, no. 140.
Bulletin of the DIA 27, no. 3 (1948): 73-75.
Delacroix. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Toronto. Toronto, 1962, no. 34.
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Eugène Delacroix, Ghost on the Terrace, 1834, graphite pencil on tracing paper completely attached to a supporting sheet of wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund, 47.32.
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