Jewish Woman of Algiers

Original Language TitleUne Juive d'Alger

Artist Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798 - 1863)

Date1833

MediumEtching

DimensionsImage: 7 7/8 × 6 1/16 inches (20 × 15.48 cm)
Plate: 8 1/2 × 6 7/8 inches (21.59 × 17.46 cm)
Sheet: 17 5/8 × 11 3/4 inches (44.77 × 29.85 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the Richard Shields Fund

Object numberF66-38/1

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Exhibition History

Color and Line: Masterworks on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 5-November 11, 2007, no cat.

Color and Line: Masterworks on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 26-August 10, 2014, no cat., as Jewish Woman of Algiers.

Color and Line: Masterworks on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 23-July 30, 2017, no cat., as Jewish Woman of Algiers.

Gallery Label

Eugène Delacroix made his name as a gifted colorist. Nevertheless, etchings like this reveal his great ability to record the mood and appearance of his subjects through line alone. This interior scene of an Algerian woman and her servant was inspired by a six-month trip through North Africa in 1832. Delacroix’s direct observation of the Jewish communities he encountered is ref lected in his realistic treatment of costumes and accessories, rendered here in a f lurry of small engraved lines.

Provenance

With Kennedy Galleries, New York, by July 18, 1966;

Purchased from Kennedy Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1966.

Published References

Adolphe Moreau, E. Delacroix et son oeuvre (Paris: Librairie des bibliophiles, 1873), no. 19 III/IV, pp. 23-24, as Une Juive d'Alger.

Alfred Robaut, L’Œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix (Paris: Charavay frères, 1885), no. 461, p. 123, (repro.), as Une Juive d'Alger.

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. 3 (Paris: 1908), no. 18 III/IV, unpaginated, (repro.), as Juive d’Alger.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 292, as Une Juive d'Alger.

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