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The image is an ink drawing featuring two figures. One figure is standing and leaning over the other figure, who is lying on the ground. The standing figure appears to be male, with angular limbs, hair, and a garment with tassels. The figure on the ground has one arm outstretched and one bent, with indistinct facial features. Bold lines emphasize the musculature of both figures. The background is plain and textured.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
A False Scalping Performed by Iowa Tribe Members in Paris
Eugène Delacroix
- Date
- 1845
- Medium
- pen and brown ink on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20.16 × 31.43 cm (7 15/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 2019.45.11
- Credit line
- Bequest of William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee
- Time span
- 1826 to 1850
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- figure
- Man
- Figures
Provenance
Atelier Delacroix (Lugt 838a); (Delacroix sale, Hôtel Drouot, 22-27 February 1864, probably part of no. 652 ("croquis d'après des sauvages Iowas 1834 [sic]; 33 feuilles de dessins et croquis; en quatre lots à MM. Riesener, Barbet de Jouy, Sensier, Philippe Rousseau"); Philippe Rousseau [1816-1887], animal painter; (Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris); Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, Paris. (Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by 1954). Jean-Pierre Durand-Matthiesen, Geneva, by 1963; (Thomas Le Claire Gallery, Hamburg, by 1987); (Brandt Dayton Gallery, New York); William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee, Dallas, TX, 1988; bequest to NGA, 2019.
Marks
Delacroix's studio stamp (Lugt 838), or one of the false marks [D is indistinct]
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