LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

24.76 in. (62.90 cm.) (height) by 15.94 in. (40.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

dated and inscribed 'novembre 1851 (Nice)' (lower center)

Exhibited:

Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des œuvres de Paul Delaroche, 21 April 1857, p. 14, no. 42, as Portrait d'Horace Delaroche. Paris, Musée Hébert, Hommage à Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), 15 June-17 September 1984, no. 27, illustrated, as Horace Delaroche. Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paul Delaroche: un peintre dans l'histoire, 22 October 1999-17 January 2000, also Montpellier, Pavillon du Musée Fabre, 3 February-23 April 2000, pp. 169, 322, no. 84, illustrated, as Portrait d'Horace Delaroche.

Literature:

H. Deborde and J. Goddé, Œuvre de Paul Delaroche, Paris, 1858, p. 322, no. 84, pl. 56, illustrated, as Portrait d'Horace Delaroche. N. D. Ziff, Paul Delaroche, A Study of Nineteenth-Century French History Painting, New York and London, 1977, pp. 298, 394, no. 181, pl. 141, illustrated, as Joseph-Carle-Paul-Horace Delaroche. S. Bann, Paul Delaroche, History Painted, Princeton, 1997, pp. 235-237, fig. 147, illustrated, as Horace Delaroche.

Provenance:

The artist. Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (1789-1863), his father-in-law, by 1857. Madame Robert Delaroche-Vernet, Paris, by descent, by 1977. Dr. Nicolas Halmagrand, Paris, her grand-nephew, by 1999. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 31 January 2014, lot 544. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.