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TwitterComposition sketch for the former lunette 'Hercules frees Alcestis from the underworld' at the Salon de la Paix in the Hôtel de Ville
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Drawings / Pencil drawings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
30663
Description
Pencil, splashes of ink, on heavily foxed paper, 1852, stamp of Eugène Delacroix' estate (Lugt number 838 centre bottom), labelled with pencil: 'autel/ sur lequel admete/ fait ses voeux/ vases de sacrifice/ vase renverse et debou (sic)/ trepied/ enfant/ armure/ lyre/ couteau de sacrifice dans sa gaine/ trompe', to right: 'flammes' (flames)
Height
20 cm
Width
30.2 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