Study for ""The Death of Mary Magdalen” (previously identified as ""Louise Vernet on Her Death Bed"")

1833-1835

17.1 cm 14.9 cm

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This drawing was previously identified as depicting the artist's wife, Louise Vernet, on her death bed, and therefore dated to 1845, the year she died. This identification was based on a painting with the same subject and title that belonged to the artist's descendants and was...

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Possibly lot 68, sale ""Catalogue des tableaux, esqisses, dessins et croquis de M. Paul Delaroche,"" [expert] Francis Petit, Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 1857, Paris [1]. Goupil, Paris (?); William T. Walters, Baltimore, May 18, 1867 (?), by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] lot 68, ""Figure de la Madeleine, pour la Madeleine morte. Dessin rehausee."" Sold for 75F.
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