Object details
Accession number
P3e21
Primary Creator
Eugène Delacroix
(Saint-Maurice, 1798 - 1863, Paris)
Full title
The Crusader
Creation Date
about 1840
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the gallery of Seth Morton Vose, Providence, on 20 February 1882 for $3,500.
Marks
Signed (lower left): Delacroix-
Dimensions
40.3 x 30.2 cm (15 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Display Media
Oil and bitumen on card
Web Commentary
Isabella 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.
Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. 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)
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