EUGÈNE DELACROIX (French, 1798-1863) 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.
