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EUGÈNE DELACROIX Rencontre de Cavaliers Maures.
Lithograph on Chine collé, 1834. 203x271 mm; 8x10 3/4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Edition of approximately only 20-30. A superb impression of this extremely scarce, early etching.
This etching, commissioned by Alexandre Decamps for the album Le Musée, Revue du Salon de 1834, is based on a painting Delacroix exhibited at the Salon in 1834. Only the deluxe edition of the Revue de Salon, approximately 20 to 30 copies, contained one of the original etchings. After the small deluxe edition, the etching was transferred to a lithographic stone (pierre de report), with text added, and the lithographic version was included in the regular edition of the Revue de Salon. The text on the lithographic version, which prints within 2 mm of the upper and lower border lines reads: Le Musée / Peint par Eug. Delacroix / transport et lith. Delaunois / Rencontre de Cavaliers Maures / (Tableau refusé au Salon). Delteil 23.
