Sketch for the Battle of Poitiers

1829-1830

64.8 cm 52 cm

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Delacroix often preferred to depict subjects from France's medieval past rather than from Greek or Roman antiquity. At the Battle of Poitiers (1356), a decisive episode in the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), John II of France was captured by the English forces led by Edward, p...

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Delacroix Sale, Paris, February 16-19, 1864, no. 54; Baron de Laage, 1864, by purchase; N. V. Diaz Sale, Paris, January 25, 1877, no. 323; Baron de Beurnonville Sale, Paris, April 29, 1880, no. 14; Hector Brame, Paris, 1880, by purchase; Hector Brame Sale, Paris, 1885, no. 214; L. Tabourier, Paris, 1885; Tabourier Sale, Paris, June 20, 1889, no. 19; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 29, 1899, by purchase [Durand-Ruel as dealer, New York]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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