Evening after a Battle
Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863), c. 1824-1826
oil on canvas, 48 cm x 56.6 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0112
- Dimensions
- 48 cm x 56.6 cm, 81.8 cm x 90.5 cm, 14 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Vente Eugène Delacroix), lot 66 (Le Soir d’une bataille), purchased by Baron De Laage for FRF 3100, 17 February 1864; auction Paris, Georges Petit at Hôtel Drouot (Collection P. Demidoff), lot 3 (Le Soir d’une Bataille), purchased by Léon Gauchez for FRF 5800, 3 February 1868; consigned by Léon Gauchez to auction Paris, Boulevard des Italiens (Tableaux anciens et modernes composant la Galerie de M. le Marquis de la Rocheb…), lot 7 (Waterloo), purchased by Laurent Richard for FRF 6200, 5 May 1873; auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Tableaux modernes provenant des collections de M. L.. et de M. F…), lot 23 (Le Soir de Waterloo), remained unsold, 8 April 1875; acquired from Théodore Mélot, Brussels, by Arnold & Tripp, Paris, 25 February 1891; sold by Arnold & Tripp to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for FRF 6000, 27 May 1891; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Eugène Delacroix / Paul Delaroche - Geschichte als Sensation, 10 October 2015-17 January 2016
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Carnegie Museum of Art, Fierce Friends. Artists & Animals in the Industrial Era 1750-1900, 25 March-27 August 2006
Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Eugène Delacroix, 1 November 2003-1 February 2004
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 58, 178-179
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 144
Mack-Andrick, J., Eugène Delacroix, Karlsruhe, 2003, p. 159-160
Dijk, Maite van, Suijver, Renske, Fitski, M., Smits, C., De Mesdag Collectie, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 87, 98
Dijk, Maite van, Suijver, Renske, Fitski, M., Smits, C., The Mesdag Collection, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 87, 98