Details
Artist | Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798-1863 |
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Printer | Villain, French, 1819-1822 |
Printer | Gihaut Frères, French, active 1820-1850 |
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Date | 1835 |
Medium | lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper |
Dimensions | Image: 9 3/4 × 12 11/16 inches (24.8 × 32.2 cm) Sheet: 10 13/16 × 16 5/16 inches (27.5 × 41.4 cm) |
Credit Line | Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund |
Accession Number | 67.262 |
Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Signed | Signed on stone, lower right: Eug. Delacroix |
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Inscriptions | Inscribed, printed below image, center: C'est un intrigue scelerate; mais qu'importe? Votre Majeste et nous avons la conscience libre, cela ne nous touche en rien... vous voyez: il l'empoisonne dans le jardin pour emparer de son | royaume... l'histoire est reelle ecrite en bel italien. Lower right: Lith. de Villain. Dated on stone, lower right: 1835 |
Provenance
1968-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)