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| Keywords: Eugène Delacroix - Sketch for the Battle of Poitiers - Walters 37110.jpg Le Roi Jean à la Batailles de Poitiers Louvre Delacroix often preferred to depict subjects from France's medieval past rather than from Greek or Roman antiquity At the Battle of Poitiers 1356 a decisive episode in the Hundred Years' War 1337-1453 John II of France was captured by the English forces led by Edward prince of Wales known as the Black Prince This preparatory sketch is for King John at the Battle of Poitiers a large canvas now in the Louvre Museum Paris It was commissioned by the duchess of Berry the daughter-in-law of France's last Bourbon monarch Charles X This sketch typifies the bold brushwork and vivid colors associated with Delacroix's early work between 1829 1830 oil on canvas cm 52 64 8 ;<br /> with frame cm 85 7 97 8 11 4 accession number 37 110 4738 Delacroix Sale Paris February 16-19 1864 no 54 Baron de Laage 1864 by purchase N V Diaz Sale Paris January 25 1877 no 323 Baron de Beurnonville Sale Paris April 29 1880 no 14 Hector Brame Paris 1880 by purchase Hector Brame Sale Paris 1885 no 214 L Tabourier Paris 1885 Tabourier Sale Paris June 20 1889 no 19 Henry Walters Baltimore June 29 1899 by purchase Durand-Ruel as dealer New York Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Henry Walters scratched in wet paint ~ From Ingres to Gauguin French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1951 From El Greco to Pollock Early and Late Works by European and American Artists Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1968 French Nineteenth Century Oil Sketches David to Degas Ackland Art Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill 1978 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 Triumph of French Painting Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach; Royal Academy of Arts London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute Dayton 2000-2002 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 place of origin Walters Art Museum license 2D French paintings in the Walters Art Museum History paintings by Eugène Delacroix Battle of Poitiers 1356 Sketches of art works | ||||
