The Crusader
painter
Eugène Delacroix
(Saint-Maurice, 1798 - 1863, Paris)
Dateabout 1840
Place MadeFrance, Europe
MediumOil and bitumen on card
Dimensions40.3 x 30.2 cm (15 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP3e21
eMuseum ID718519
EmbARK ObjectID10730
TMS Source ID7
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesCatalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 1.
John La Farge et al (eds.). Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections, vol. 1 (New York, 1907), p. 8.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 127-28.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 28-29.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 76-77, ill. (painted before Delacroix's The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople of 1840, in the Louvre)
John La Farge et al (eds.). Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections, vol. 1 (New York, 1907), p. 8.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 127-28.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 28-29.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 76-77, ill. (painted before Delacroix's The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople of 1840, in the Louvre)
MarksNotesSigned (lower left): Delacroix-
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the gallery of Seth Morton Vose, Providence, on 20 February 1882 for $3,500.
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