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The provenance of ‘The death of Sardanapalus’: new insights from unpublished correspondence

05/2024 | 1454 | 166

Pages: 470–478

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Author:

WATSON, Andrew M. (WATSON, Andrew M.)

Subjects

artists:

Delacroix, Eugène / Haro, Etienne-François / Dupré, Jules / Troyon, Constant

collectors and dealers:

Wilson, Daniel David

dates:

1840-1849

sources:

Correspondence

subjects:

French art / Acquisitions / Provenance / Restoration (process) / Collectors / Collections / Collecting

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Portrait of Daniel David Wilson, by ?Adolphe-David Fink. 1820s. Oil on canvas, 72 by 58 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

2. The death of Sardanapalus, by Eugène Delacroix. 1827. Oil on canvas, 392 by 496 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

3. Environs of Southampton, by Jules Dupré. 1835. Oil on canvas, 115 by 184 cm. (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Louis Senlecq, L’Isle-Adam).

Attributed works:

4. Virgin and Child (Madonna of the Rosary), by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. c.1675. Oil on canvas, 167 by 111 cm. (Château de Chenonceau).

Attributed works:

5. Portrait of Henriette Casenave Wilson, c.1830s. Pastel on board(?), 25 by 19 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

6. Woodcutters, by Constant Troyon. 1839. Oil on canvas, 213 by 154 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle).

Attributed works:

8. A basket of flowers, by Eugène Delacroix. 1848–49. Oil on canvas, 107.3 by 142.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Attributed works:

9. Façade of L’hôtel Brochart de Saron, 17, rue de l’Université, by Charles Lansiaux. Photograph. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris; PWB Images; Alamy Stock Photo).

Western art unattributed:

7. Château d’Écoublay. Postcard, 9 by 13.6 cm. (Private collection).

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