Apollo Slays Python

Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863), Paris, 1850

oil on paper, 66.2 cm x 60.3 cm

Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij)

Object number
s0526S2012
Dimensions
66.2 cm x 60.3 cm, 89.5 cm x 83.0 cm
Provenance
Posthumous studio auction, Paris, Hotel Drouot (Ventes publiques de peintures et de dessins d'Eugène Delacroix), lot 30 (Apollon vainqueur du serpent Python, 1ière pensée pour la Galerie d'Apollon du Louvre Paris), purchased by Adrien Dauzats for FRF 1.000, between 17 and 27 February 1864; purchased by Don Mariano Miguel Maldonado y Dávalos, Conde de Villagonzalo VII, Marques de la Scala, Madrid, c. 1868; after his death on 10 August 1921 inherited by his son, Don Fernando Maldonado y Salabert, Conde de Villagonzalo VIII, Marques de la Scala, Madrid; after his death on 11 July 1936 bequeathed to his heirs; private collection, 2003; consigned by this private collector to auction London, Christie's (19th century European art including Orientalist art), lot 24, purchased by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam for GBP 361.250, 12 June 2012.
artist
Eugène Delacroix
Credits
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij)

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