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EUGÈNE DELACROIX Studies for the Galerie d'Apollon after Dubois and Fréminet.
Pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1850. 217x342 mm; 8 5/8x13 1/2 inches. With the artist's initials red ink stamp (Lugt 838, recto). Annotated in pencil, upper right recto.
Provenance: Paul Prouté, Paris; sold Swann Auction Galleries, May 5, 2009, sale 2172, lot 6; private collection, Racine, Wisconsin; private collection, Chicago.
From 1848 to 1850, Delacroix (1798-1863) worked on a massive ceiling decoration for the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, Paris, a project which had commenced long before, during the 17th century, under Charles LeBrun (1619-1690).
Ambroise Dubois and Martin Fréminet, who designed the original decoration for the Galerie d'Apollon (much of which was destroyed by fire in 1651), were among the main court artists in France under Henri IV. Active during the late 1500s/early 1600s, they were central to the Seconde École de Fontainebleau and proceeded the mostly Italian artists—such as Primaticcio, Rosso Fiorentino and Niccolò dell'Abbate—who worked under François I.Studies for the Galerie d'Apollon after Dubois and Fréminet.
