Eugène Delacroix (and follower, probably Constant Dutilleux)

Eugène Delacroix
(and follower, probably Constant Dutilleux)
Self-Portrait, ca. 1830/35
Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 cm
Johnson no. M5
Provenance
Constant Dutilleux, Paris (1863–[d.] 1865) (1) ▪ Baron Edmond de Beurnonville (by 1883) (2) ▪ Henri
Rouart, Paris (by 1885 until 1912) (3) ▪ Ernest Rouart, Paris (1912–[d.]1942) (4). ▪ Denis Rouart,
Paris (until after 1948) (5) ▪ Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (after 1948/1951) (6) ▪ Emil Bührle,
Zurich (29 April 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956) (7) ▪ Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the
Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, no. 130 (1960).
(1) Given to Dutilleux, one of the nine executors of Dealcroix's estate, by Jenny Le Guillou, Delacroix's
housekeeper, Johnson no. M5; Catalogue des tableaux et dessins provenant en partie de la collection de feu
C. Dutilleux, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (26 March 1874), no. 1.
(2) Catalogue de tableaux de maîtres anciens et de tableaux et dessins modernes, appartenant à M. le baron de
B…, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (21–22 May 1883), no. 157.
(3) Exposition Eugène Delacroix au profit de la souscription destinée à élever à Paris un monument à sa
mémoire, École nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1885, no. 195; Catalogue des tableaux anciens […] et des
tableaux modernes […] composant la collection de feu M. Henri Rouart, Galerie Manzi Joyant, Paris (9–11
December 1912), no. 182 (ill.).
(4) Son of the above, bought at the above sale on 9 December 1912 for FF 11.000, Annotated copy of the above
sale catalogue at the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux (Louvre), Paris.
(5) Son of the above, oral information given by Mr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, son of Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt,
to Foundaton E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, on 22 April 2008.
(6) Acquired from the above sometimes after 1948, oral information as above, n. (5).
(7) Acquired from the above for CHF 55.000, AStEGB, Entry Book I, 29 March 1951, with indication of price, and
Letter from Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 30 April 1951, accompanying (lost) invoice for
two works of art.
Exhibitions
Exposition Eugène Delacroix au profit de la souscription destinée à élever à Paris un monument à sa
mémoire, École nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1885, no. 195. ▪ Exposition d'Art français du XIXe
siècle, Royal Museum, Copenhagen 1914, no. 72. ▪ Delacroix, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris 1928. ▪
Exposition Eugène Delacroix, Peintures aquarelles, pastels, dessins, gravures, documents, Louvre,
Paris 1930, no. 66. ▪ Eugène Delacroix et ses amis, Atelier [Musée] Delacroix, Paris 1932, no. 2. ▪
Exposition de portraits français de 1400 à 1900, Galerie André Seligmann, Paris 1936, no. 117. ▪
Eugène Delacroix, Kunsthaus Zürich 1939, no. 301. ▪ Eugène Delacroix, Kunsthalle Basel 1939, no.
213. ▪ Portraits français, Galerie Charpentier, Paris 1945, no. 30. ▪ Eugène Delacroix, XXVIII
Biennale di Venezia (Piazza S. Marco, Ala Napoleonica), Venice 1956, p. 531 (no. 12). ▪ Eugène
Delacroix, Spiegelungen, Tasso im Irrenhaus, Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz", Winterthur
2008, no. 2.
References
Alfred Robaut, L'Œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, Peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies,
Paris 1885, no. 69. ▪ Raymond Escholier, Delacroix, Peintre, graveur, écrivain, vol. 2, 1832–1848,
Paris 1927, pp. 216 (ill.), 223. ▪ Louis Hourticq, Delacroix, L'Œuvre du maître, Paris 1930, pp. 29
(ill.), 183. ▪ Marie Dormoy, "La collection Ernest Rouart", in Formes (24) 1932, p. 259. ▪ André
Joubin, "Delacroix vu par lui-même", in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (21) 1939, p. 306 (n. 1). ▪ François
Fosca, Delacroix, Berne 1947, p. 22, fig. 6. ▪ Giuseppe Marchiori, Delacroix alla Biennale, Venice
1956, no. 12. ▪ Lee Johnson, "Delacroix at the Biennale", in Burlington Magazine (98) 1956, p. 327,
n. 2. ▪ René Huyghe etc. Delacroix, Paris 1963, ill. frontispiece. ▪ Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, L'opera
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pittorica completa di Delacroix, Milan 1972, no. 78 (ill.; German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk
von Delacroix, Lucerne etc. 1972; French edition: Henriette Bessis, Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, Tout
l'œuvre peint de Delacroix, Paris 1975; 21984). ▪ Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix, A
Critical Catalogue, vol. 1, 1816–1831, Oxford 1981, p. 231, no. M5; vol. 2, Plates, Oxford 1981, fig.
180.
Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 130; 1973/86, no. 12; 1994/95, pp. 31–32;
2004/05, no. 60. ▪ Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zurich 1958, no. 110; Munich 1958/59, no.
48; Zurich 2010, no. 130.
Catalogues, exhibitions and articles cited in full see http://www.buehrle.ch/pdf/egbcat.pdf.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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