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Lot 337:
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Eugène Delacroix Attributed Oil Painting Red Wax Seal: "E.D." and further identified on the old plaque on front of frame. The painting depicting the Virgin and Child and framed in a 19th century gilded stuccoed wooden frame bearing on a cartel identifying the work as being by Eugène DELACROIX, also a a red wax seal imprinted "E D".
Art: 25.7 x 20.4 in. (65.3 x 51.8 cm.), Frame: 33.8 x 24.8 in. (85.9 x 63 cm.)
Eugene (Ferdinand Victor) Delacroix (1798 – 1863) was active/lived in France. Eugene Delacroix is known for Allegorical, classical painting. Eugene Delacroix was born in Charenton St. Maurice near Paris on April 26, 1798. His mother came from a family of artists and royal cabinet makers. His father was a lawyer who had been active in the Revolution and was at the time ambassador from the French Directory to Holland.
His first exhibited work was Dante and Virgil in 1822 in the Salon.It was a tortured scene of hell and was viciously attacked by some of the critics, but the government of France bought it anyway – a purchase so out of character for bureaucratic establishments as to inspire a generally accepted conjecture that Delacroix was the illegitimate son of Talleyrand, the French foreign minister. Among the many factors pointing to a relationship between the prince and the painter, the most revealing was their startling physical resemblance, which it is said shocked Delacroix, when he first saw a miniature of Talleyrand on his mother’s desk.
Condition: good
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