Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Johnson 226

Collection catalogues
Everett Fahy (ed.), The Wrightsman pictures, New York; New Haven, 2005, nr. 95
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 38

Provenance

?the sitter, the artist's maternal aunt, Frépillon, near Montmorency, and Paris, until died 1847
her son, Léon Riesener, Paris, 1847–died 1878
his widow, Mme Léon Riesener, 1878–at least 1885
their daughter, Louise Riesener, later Mme Claude Léouzon-le-Duc, ?Paris, by 1916–at least 1936
Léon Salavin, Paris, by 1952–at least 1969
with Galerie Schmit, Paris, until 1971, sold on 11 January to Rosenberg
with Paul Rosenberg, New York, 1971, sold on 22 February to Wrightsman
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York, 1971–his death 1986
Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York, 1986–94

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1994.430

Other works by Eugène Delacroix

Christ in the Garden of Olives
c. 1851

The Massacre of Chios
1822

The Agony in the Garden
1824/27

Flowers
after 1833

The Death of Desdemona
1858