Eugène Delacroix
Animal and Figure Studies

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Animal and Figure Studies
Dateno date
MediumBlack chalk on laid paper
DimensionsSheet (sight): 9 3/4 × 15 1/8 in. (24.8 × 38.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Efrem Kurtz
Object number2000.319
Non exposé

Explore Further

ProvenanceMartin Reynert; [Christies, New York, February 25, 1998, lot 152]; Efrem (1900-1995) and Mary Lynch Kurtz, New York; to Mary Lynch Kurtz (d. 1999); to the Estate of Mary Lynch Kurtz, 1999-2000; given to the MFAH, 2000.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Illegible pencil markings on verso at the top center, center and lower left.
Stamped in red lower center: "E.D."

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Studies of Male Nudes and a Pair of Putti from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, after Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Mid- to late 16th century
Black and red chalk, pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper
2020.480
Five Studies of the Head of Giuliano de’ Medici, after Michelangelo
Francesco Morandini, called Il Poppi
c. 1571-1572
Black and white chalk on blue laid paper
2018.34
Sheet of Figure Studies [recto]; Studies of Putti and of Legs [verso]
Cesare Pollini
c. 1600
Ink and wash, pencil, chalk on laid paper
70.35
Compositional Study for Le Combat des Section d’Infanterie
Jacques Callot
c. 1616
Pen and brown ink and wash and red chalk over black chalk on laid paper
2017.226
Study for Portrait of a Lady in a Landscape
Arthur Devis
c. 1750s
Black and red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper
2015.438
Figures and Cattle Beside a Woodland Pool
Thomas Gainsborough
c. 1777
Gray washes over traces of black chalk and heightened with white chalk on laid paper
2017.429
Villa Borghesi (The Villa Borghese, Rome)
Richard Wilson
1754
Black chalk with white chalk on gray blue laid paper; laid down on the artist's original mount of laid paper with lilac wash laid paper border
2019.288
Studies for an Annunciation
17th century
Red chalk on buff laid paper
2022.745
Costume Studies
16th century
Brown ink over red chalk on laid paper
2022.741
Study of a Forest
Eugène Delacroix
c. 1842–1846
Graphite and wash on wove paper
2023.189
Deposition
Denys Calvaert
c. 1595
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolor, and white heightening, squared for transfer with black chalk on laid paper
2013.173
Study of a Vase of Flowers
Jan van Huysum
early to mid 1700s
Black chalk and brush and ink with gray wash on laid paper
2019.17