Flowers

1843

Eugène Delacroix

Associated Names
Eugène Delacroix

Artist, French, 1798 - 1863

This painting shows a bouquet of flowers in a gray vase. The flowers vary in color, including dark purple, pink, white, and yellow. The vase is centered, with some flowers extending upward and some leaning to the sides. Between the flowers are dark green leaves and stems. The background is beige with an area of lightly-painted pale gray on the left.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor, gouache, and black chalk, over charcoal on light brown wove paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.5 x 21.9 cm (8 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.47.37

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Delacroix estate sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17-29 February 1864, no. 625); Alfred Robaut [1830-1909]; (his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 November 1919, no. 43); Marcel Guérin [1873-1948], Paris, by 1930; Alfred Indig, Paris, by 1956; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1885

  • L'Exposition Eugene Delacroix. Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1885, no. 289.

1930

  • Exposition Delacroix. Musée du Louvre and Bibliothèque Nationale, 1930, no. 714.

1942

  • possibly Le Fleurs et les Fruits. Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1942-43: no. 45 (not repr.).

1956

  • XXVIIIème Exposition Biennale Internationale des Beaux Arts--Venice 1956. Venice, 1956, no. 104 or 55(?).

2012

  • Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 10.

Bibliography

1885

  • Robaut, Alfred. L'Oeuvre Complet de Eugène Delacroix. Paris, 1885: no. 776(?).

1926

  • Escholier, Raymond. Delacroix. Peintre, Graveur, Écrivain. 3 vols. Paris, 1926-29: II: 154, 333.

Inscriptions

lower right stamped in red: E.D (Lugt 838); by later hand, upper right verso: Mellon 248

Wikidata ID

Q64560451

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