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ID number: BIRBI-62.1 Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Artist / Maker: Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène (1798-1863) Title / Object name: St Stephen borne away by his disciples Object type: Painting Culture: French Date made: 1862 Materials: Oil on canvas Measurements: 46.6 x 38 cm unframed; 63 x 55.5 x 12 cm framed Provenance: ? Paul Tesse, by 1864; bought by Etienne Moreau-Nélaton in a sale at the Hôtel Drouot before June 1880, 2,625 fr.; he exchanged it with M. Warocquié, Belgium, in June 1880 and took it back in 1886; Solvay Collection until about 1956; purchased from Wildenstein & Co., in 1962 for £8,000. |
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St Stephen, a deacon of the early Church and the first martyr, was stoned to death for blasphemy outside Jerusalem in c. 35 AD, and carried to burial by "devout men" (Acts of the Apostles vii: 58 and viii: 2). In this late, personal work, the mountainous landscape and colourful costumes seem to be derived from the artist's recollections of his visit to North Africa, made in 1832. A larger and earlier version of the subject is in the Musée Municipal, Arras. Inscriptions / Translations: Signed and dated l.r.: Eug. Delacroix 1862. Notes: Exhibited: 'Segunda Esposicion de obras clasicas de la pintura Europea', Museo de Bella Artes, Caracas, Spain, 1956, cat. no. 18; 'Important Paintings', Wildenstein Gallery, London, UK, 1959, cat. no. 30; 'Delacroix, ses maîtres, ses amis, ses élèves', Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France, 15 February 1963 - August 1963, cat. no. 57; 'Eugène Delacroix', Kuntshaus, Zurich, Switzerland, 04 June 1987 - 26 August 1987, cat. no. 125; 'Delacroix, les dernières années', Grand Palais, Paris, France, 07 April 1998 - 21 July 1998, cat. no. 140; 'Eugène Delacroix: The Late Works', Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA, 10 September 1998 - 02 January 1999; 'Rebels and Martyrs, the Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century', National Gallery, London, UK, 28 June 2006 - 28 August 2006, cat. no. 50; 'Eugène Delacroix and Modernity', Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA, 18 October 2015 - 10 January 2016; 'Eugène Delacroix and Modernity', National Gallery, London, UK, 17 February 2016 - 22 May 2016 |
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| Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugène French 1798 1863 | |
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| The paintings of Eugène Delacroix Johnson, L. 1986 | |
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