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L'Odalisque

Lithographer Charles Alexandre Debacq French
After Eugène Delacroix French
Printer Bertauts French
1852
Not on view
This lithograph reproduces Delacroix's painting of the same title that he exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1847, where it was very well received. It was published first in the journal "L'Artiste" on June 27, 1847, but this impression comes from an 1852 publication "Les Peintres vivants," a collection of one hundred prints after living artists. Delacroix had an abiding concern for his legacy and one of the ways he hoped to ensure his reputation was through the circulation of his work in print. The critic Charles Baudelaire recounted that the "liability of painting compared to the solidity of print was one of the constant themes of his conversation."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: L'Odalisque
  • Lithographer: Charles Alexandre Debacq (French, Paris 1804–1850 Paris)
  • Artist: After Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris)
  • Printer: Bertauts
  • Date: 1852
  • Medium: Lithograph on chine collé; fourth state of four
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 16 15/16 in. (30.2 × 43 cm)
    Image: 6 1/8 × 7 7/16 in. (15.5 × 18.9 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2019
  • Object Number: 2019.279.7
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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