Medium:Pen and brown ink over graphite on laid paper, mounted on cardboard
Dimensions:10-3/8 x 13-13/16 in. (26.4 x 35.1 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1961
Object Number:61.160.1
Inscription: Graphite (Delacroix's hand), lower center: Serpent; lower right: plus grand le monstre; upper left corner (same hand): . . . [illegible]
Marking: Stamped, lower right in red: E.D. (Delacroix sale stamp, Lugt 838)
Eugène Delacroix (French); Alfred Sensier; Philippe Burty (French); Walter Feilchenfeldt
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Classicism and Romanticism. French Drawings and Prints," September 15–November 1, 1970.
Paris. Cabinet des dessins, Musée du Louvre. "Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso," October 25, 1973–January 7, 1974.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Nineteenth Century French Drawings and Prints," June 23–August 23, 1981.
Kunsthalle Tübingen. "Ingres und Delacroix: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen," September 12, 1986–October 28, 1986.
Bruno Overlaet. "Ingres und Delacroix: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen," September 12, 1986 - December 21, 1986.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. "Ingres und Delacroix: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen," November 6, 1986–December 21, 1986.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863): Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from North American Collections," April 10–June 16, 1991.
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. "Delacroix, Les Derniéres Années," April 7, 1998–July 20, 1998.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Delacroix, The Late Work," September 15, 1998–January 3, 1999.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," April 11–June 25, 2000.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Delacroix," September 17, 2018–January 6, 2019.
Robaut 728; MMA 1991.45
Alfred-Ernest Robaut Eugène Delacroix, facsimile de dessins et croquis originaux. Paris, 1864, fig. no. pl. 42, ill.
André Michel "L'Exposition d'Eugène Delacroix, à L'École des Beaux-Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. vol. 31, 1885, Mentions the Allegory of Envy in the collection of M.A. Sencier [sic], p. 301 (illustration from a facsimile by Alfred Robaut.), p. 305.
Alfred-Ernest Robaut L'Oeuvre complet d'Eugène Delacroix: Peintures, Dessins, Gravures, Lithographies. Paris, 1885, cat. no. 728, p. 195, ill.
Roger Ballu Les Dessins du Siècle. Paris, 1891, pp. 24-26 ff., ill.
Etienne Moreau-Nélaton Delacroix. vol. 1, 1916, fig. no. 179, p. 197, ill.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Ingres et Delacroix Exh. cat. Brussels, 1937, cat. no. 160, p. 279, ill.
De Géricault à Matisse, chefs d'oeuvres français des collections Suisses. Ex. cat. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1959, cat. no. 158, fig. no. pl. 5, ill.
De Gericault a Matisse: Chefs-d'Oeuvre Francais des Collections Suisses. Ex. cat. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1959, cat. no. 158.
Jacob Bean "The Drawings Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 20, New York, 1962, p. 172, ill.
"The Delacroix Centenary in France - I." in Burlington Magazine. vol. 105, July 1963, p. 298.
Maurice Sérullaz Mémorial de l'exposition Eugène Delacroix organisées au Musée du Louvre à l'occasion de la mort de l'artiste. Paris, 1963, cat. no. 297, pp. 218-219.
Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 68, fig. no. 68, ill.
Linda Boyer Gillies, Colta Ives, Jacob Bean Classicism and Romanticism: French Drawings and Prints, 1800-1860. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, cat. no. 27, p. 5.
Jacob Bean, Linda Boyer Gillies, Cynthia Lambros, Roseline Bacou, Réunion des Musées Nationaux Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: de David à Picasso 54th Exposition de Cabinet des Dessins Musée du Louvre, 25 octobre 1973–7 janvier 1974. Paris, 1973, cat. no. 40, fig. no. 21.
Maurice Sérullaz Delacroix. Paris, 1981, cat. no. 54, p. 202, ill.
Arlette Sérullaz Delacroix: The Late Work. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, Apr. 7-July 20, 1998 and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sept. 15, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999. Paris, Philadelphia, 1998, cat. no. 63, p. 171, ill.
Dominique de Font-Réaulx Maurice Denis et Eugène Delacroix, de l'atelier au musée. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2017, cat. no. fig. 48, pp. 102, ill.
Sébastien Allard, Côme Fabre Delacroix. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2018, cat. no. 117, pp. 153, 293, ill.
Dominique de Font-Réaulx Delacroix: La liberté d'être soi. Cohen and Cohen, Paris, 2018, fig. no. 336, pp. 498, 501, ill.
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