Rencontre de cavaliers maures. 1834. Art & décoration

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Rencontre de cavaliers maures. 1834. Eau-forte (possiblement par Célestin Nanteuil). 270 x 190 [272 x 206 mm]. Delteil, Strauber 23. Très belle épreuve sur chine appliqué. Trace de pli horizontal le long du bord inférieur. Marges étroites. Timbre AABM (Lugt 3075). " It now appears [...] that the etching may be by Célestin Nanteuil after a drawing by Delacroix. As Johnson noted, even though three impressions of the etching passed in Delacroix's posthumous sale as by him, Robaut [...] accepted Maurice Tourneux' view that the etching was by Nanteuil. [...] That Delacroix did the drawing is supported by two pen and ink drawings both signed and dated 1834. [...] In sum, it now appears there was a small deluxe edition of the album Le Musée with the illustrations printed from the original etched plates. Authorities differ on the number of impressions in this edition [20 or 30] ; then the images were transferred and printed as lithographs for the regular edition. " (Loÿs Delteil, Translated and Revised by Susan Strauber, Delacroix The Graphic Work, A Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997, p. 58, notes).