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Drunken Silenus, after Rubens
Eugène Delacroix French
After Peter Paul Rubens Flemish
Not on view
The date inscribed on this sheet—November 1, 1840—attests to Delacroix’s continued practice of copying throughout his career. Here, he combined motifs from multiple prints after Rubens. The drunken Silenus is based on a woodcut, and the putto with a cornucopia is likely copied from an eighteenth-century engraving after Rubens’s ceiling decoration in the Banqueting House at Whitehall, London (1636).
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