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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. Ex-collection Paul Prouté, Paris, according to an inscription in ink on the frame back.
From 1848 to 1850, Delacroix worked on a massive ceiling decoration for the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, Paris, a project which had commenced during the 17th century under Charles LeBrun.
Abroise Dubois and Martin Fréminet were among the main court artists in France under Henri IV. Active during the late 1500s/early 1600s, they form what is known as the Seconde École de Fontainebleau and proceed 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.
