Eugène Delacroix
The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage
1862
Le Sultan du Maroc et son entourage
Oil on canvas, on wood
69.5 x 57.5 cm
Signed & dated bottom, left of center: Eug. Delacroix 1862
Johnson 417
Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, A Critical Catalogue, 6 vol., Oxford, 1981-1989.
Provenance
1L. Tabourierby 1878 Exposition rétrospective de tableaux et dessins de maîtres modernes, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris 1878, no. 151.
2Durand-Ruel Paris Johnson no. 417.
3Cornelius Vanderbilt III New York • by 1930 until [d.] 1942 Exposition Eugène Delacroix, Peintures aquarelles, pastels, dessins, gravures, documents, Louvre, Paris 1930, no. 197.
4The Cornelius Vanderbilt III estate New York • 1942–1953 Eugène Delacroix, (exh. cat.) Wildenstein Galleries, New York 1944, no. 47. Cornelius Vanderbilt's widow, Grace Vanderbilt, passed away on 7 January 1953; this might have led to the sale of the painting thereafter, AStEGB, Telegram and Letter from F. Delius, New York, to Emil Bührle, 18 June 1953, and 24 June 1953, announcing that the «Vanderbilt Delacroix» has just passed into the possession of E. & A. Silberman.
5E. & A. Silberman, Inc. New York • 1953 AStEGB, Letter from Abris Silberman, Hotel Dolder, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 1 August 1953, enclosing photographs and other material relating to the picture.
6Emil Bührle Zurich • 31 August 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for $ 27.000, AStEGB, Letter from Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 31 August 1953, confirming order of transfer of $ 27.000 to Mr. Silberman, New York. Also correspondence regarding the import of the picture, arriving in Zurich on 22 August 1953.
7Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 124.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, A Critical Catalogue, 6 vol., Oxford, 1981-1989.
Exhibitions
1864Exposition Eugène Delacroix Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts • Paris • 1864 no. 139 (?)
1878Exposition rétrospective de tableaux et dessins de maîtres modernes Galeries Durand-Ruel • Paris • 1878 no. 151.
1930Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colours, Drawings and Prints by Eugène Delacroix Art Institute of Chicago • 1930 no. 44.
1930Exposition Eugène Delacroix, Peintures aquarelles, pastels, dessins, gravures, documents Louvre • Paris • 1930 no. 197.
1933Courbet and Delacroix Marie Harriman Gallery • New York • 1933 no. 23.
1944Eugène Delacroix Wildenstein Galleries • New York • 1944 no. 47.
1954Das Pferd in der Kunst Kunstmuseum St. Gall • 1954 no. 16.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 6.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 126.
2017Gefeiert & verspottet, Französische Malerei 1820–1880 Kunsthaus Zurich • 2017–18 no. 42.
2018Bührle Collection: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland) National Art Center, Tokyo • Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka • Nagoya City Art Museum • 2018 no. 16.
References
1885Alfred Robaut L'Œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, Peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies Paris • 1885 • no. 1441.
1907Dorothy Bussy Eugène Delacroix London • 1907 • p. 90 (ill.; 21912).
1913Julius Meier-Graefe Eugène Delacroix, Beiträge zu einer Analyse Munich • 1913 • p. 247 (ill.) (21922, p. 230 [ill.]).
1916Étienne Moreau-Nélaton Delacroix raconté par lui-même Paris • 1916 • vol. 2, p. 204, fig. 386.
1927Raymond Escholier Delacroix, Peintre, graveur, écrivain vol. 2 1832–1848 Paris • 1927 • p. 291 (ill.); vol. 3 1848–1863 Paris • 1929 • p. 256.
1930Louis Hourticq Delacroix, L'Œuvre du maître Paris • 1930 • p. 179 (ill.).
1930Jean Alazard L'Orient et la peinture française au XIXe siècle d'Eugène Delacroix à Auguste Renoir Paris • 1930 • p. 66.
1938Michel Florisoone Eugène Delacroix Paris • 1938 • fig. 59.
1931Lionello Venturi «Delacroix» in L'Arte (34) • 1931 • p. 58, fig. 2.
1941Lionello Venturi Peintres modernes, Goya, Constable, David, Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Daumier, Courbet Paris • 1941 • p. 123, fig, 73.
1953Elie Lambert Histoire d'un tableau, L'Abd er Rahman, Sultan du Maroc de Delacroix Paris • 1953 • pp. 33–34, n. 2, 46, fig. 31.
1956François Daulte «Le chef-d'œuvre d'une vie: la collection Buhrle» in Connaissance des Arts (52) • 15 June 1956 • p. 32 (ill.).
1963Centenaire d'Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863 (exh. cat.) • Louvre • Paris • 1963 • p. 115 (entry for no. 339).
1963Maurice Sérullaz Mémorial de l'exposition Eugène Delacroix, organisée au Musée du Louvre à l'occasion du centenaire de la mort de l'artiste Paris • 1963 • p. 250.
1963René Huyghe Delacroix London • 1963 • pp. 272, 293, 303, fig. 224 (French edition: Paris 1964 • German edition: Munich 1967).
1965Corrado Maltese Delacroix Milan • 1965 • p. 167.
1970Tom Prideaux The World of Delacroix New York • 1966 • pp. 116 (ill.)–117 (German edition: Delacroix und seine Zeit, 1970).
1971Frank Anderson Trapp The Attainment of Delacroix Baltimore & London • 1971 • p. 136, n. 53.
1972Luigina Rossi Bortolatto L'opera pittorica completa di Delacroix Milan • 1972 • no. 801 (ill.; German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk von Delacroix, Lucerne etc. 1972 • French edition: Henriette Bessis, Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, Tout l'œuvre peint de Delacroix, Paris 1975; 21984).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 18 (ill.; 21986).
1986Lee Johnson The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, A Critical Catalogue vol. 3 1832–1863 Oxford • 1986 • p. 210, no. 417; vol. 4 Plates Oxford • 1984 • fig. 211.
1993Alain Daguerre de Hureaux Delacroix Paris • 1993 • p. 329.
1994Delacroix, Le voyage au Maroc (exh. cat.) • Institut du Monde Arabe • Paris • 1994–95 • pp. 119–120 (ill.), 212.
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2, Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 56 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2007Patrick Shaw Cable «Delacroix's Orientals and van Gogh's Peasants, Some Analogies» in Orientes–Occidentes, El Arte y la mirada del otro, XXVII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte Gustavo Curiel (ed.) • Mexico City • 2007 • p. 719, fig. 2.
2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich • 2021 • no. 305 (ill.).