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TwitterComposition sketches for the two former lunettes 'Hercules rests at the base of the column' and 'Hercules skins the Nemesian lion' in the Salons de la Paix of the Hôtel de Ville
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Drawings / Pencil drawings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
30662
Description
Pencil, on heavily foxed paper, 1852, stamp of Eugène Delacroix' estate (Lugt number 838 bottom right), labelled with pencil, at top right: 'trident august de jaspe', at bottom centre: 'coquille' (shell). On reverse top left: 'No 167'
Height
20 cm
Width
30.5 cm
Motif
Studies and sketches
Period
1st half of the 19th Century, 2nd half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Acquisition from the art market/antique shop
Provenance according to museum / collection
Auction of Eugène Delacroix' estate in 1864. Acquired from Friedrich Welz, Salzburg, in 1948
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The questionable nature of the provenance of the art or cultural object is being or has been examined by the museum/the collection/the Commission for Provenance Research. So far, the case has not been dealt with by the Art Restitution Advisory Board.
No recommendation has been issued yet.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism