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Jacob Struggling with the Angel
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Drawing is on two pieces of beige antique laid paper joined in the center and mounted onto blue paper
Department of Drawings
Delacroix Atelier sale [Paris Hôtel Drouot February 17-29 1864 part of lot 297]. Alfred Robaut (1830-1909) Douai and Paris. [Georges Aubry Paris from at least 1928 until at least 1930] [1]. [Maurice Gobin Paris c. 1933] [2] sold; to Philip Hofer Cambridge MA gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1934
Notes
[1] Georges Aubry is listed as the owner of the drawing in 1928 as in the catalogue for the 1930 "Exposition Eugène Delacroix " in "Eugene Delacroix: Zeichnungen Aquarelle und Pastelle " 1929 and in the 1933 text "Choix de Cinquante Dessins de Eugene Delacroix."
[2] Correspondence between Philip Hofer and Paul Sachs from January 1934 indicate that Hofer purchased the drawings from Gobin in the summer of 1933.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Philip Hofer
Title: Jacob Struggling with the Angel
Description:
Drawing is on two pieces of beige antique laid paper joined in the center and mounted onto blue paper.
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