Object type: Painting
Pietà
- Artist: Eugène Delacroix
- Creation date: Ca. 1850
On display: Room 054 The Collection Exhibition - A revolution in painting
About
- Creation date:
- Ca. 1850
- Object type:
- Painting
- Materials and techniques:
- Olje på lerret
- Material:
- Canvas
- Dimensions:
- Width: 27 cm
- Height: 35.6 cm
- Keywords:
- Visual art
- Classification:
- 532 - Bildende kunst
- Motif:
- Biblical
- Motif - type:
- Religious scene or person
- Inventory no.:
- NG.M.01179
- Cataloguing level:
- Single object
- Inscriptions:
- Primary, Inscription, nede midten mot venstre: Eug. Delacroix
- Acquisition:
- Gift from the Friends of the National Gallery 1918
- Provenance:
- [35] Dealer, Walther Halvorsen
[40] Previous owner, Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
[40] Previous owner, Paul Tesse
[40] Previous owner, Elisabeth av Wied , by erroneous tradition
[40] Previous owner, Alphonse Kann, assumed certain - Owner and collection:
- Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, The Fine Art Collections
- Photo:
- Høstland, Børre/Larsen, Frode
- Allard, Sébastien, et al. Delacroix. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. 184–5, 429; kat.nr. 119
- Messel, Nils. Franske forbindelser: Kunst, kapital og konjunkturer i Norge rundt 1. verdenskrig. Oslo: Messel Forlag, 2016. 140–1, 144
- 244–5; kat.nr. 67.Mensger, Ariane, red. Déjà-vu? : die Kunst der Wiederholung von Dürer bis YouTube. Bielefeld: Kerber, 2012.
- Lederballe, Thomas, red. Delacroix: Maleriets musik. København: Rhodos, 2000. 137; kat.nr. 19
- Johnson, Lee. The paintings of Eugène Delacroix : a critical catalogue : 3 : 1832-1863. Johnson, Lee The paintings of Eugène Delacroix. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. kat.nr. 443
- Østby, Leif, red. Katalog over utenlandsk malerkunst : med 153 illustrasjoner. Oslo: Nasjonalgalleriet, 1973. 211–3; kat.nr. 496
- Bortolatto, Luigi Rossi. L’Opera Pittorica Completa Di Delacroix. Classici dell’arte. Milano: Rizzoli, 1972. 120; kat.nr. 561
- Willoch, Sigurd. Nasjonalgalleriets venner: kunst i 50 år. Oslo: Nasjonalgalleriets venner, 1967. 14; kat.nr. 4
- Sérullaz, Maurice. «A Comment on the Delacroix Exhibition organized in England». The Burlington Magazine 107 (1965). 366
- Huyghe, René. Delacroix. London: Thames and Hudson, 1963. 483, 492
- Franske malere: 56 reproduksjoner. Oslo: Nasjonalgalleriet, 1959. 13
- bd. 3; 215, 457van Gogh, Vincent. The complete letters of Vincent van Gogh: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence. Greenwich, Connecticut: New York graphic society, 1958.
- Thiis, Jens. «Eugène Delacroix: Et avsnit av hans liv.» Kunst: gammel og ny, 1937, 149–84. 159, 168–73
- Jamot, Paul. «L’art français en Norvège». La Renaissance 2, nr. 2 (1929): 69–106. 84
- Escholier, Raymond. Delacroix : peintre, graveur, écrivain : 3 : 1848-1863. La vie et l’art romantiques. Paris: H. Floury, 1929. 61
- Thiis, Jens. «Eugène Delacroix: Et avsnit av hans liv. I anledning av Nationalgalleriets nyerhvervede billeder». Kunst og kultur 7 (1918): 1–27. 12, 18–9
- 39Veron, Eugène. Eugène Delacroix. Les artistes célèbres. J. Rouam: Paris, 1887.
- Robaut, Alfred. L’oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix: peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies. Paris: Charavay frères, 1885. 313; kat.nr. 1173
- Moreau, Adolphe. E. Delacroix et son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie des bibliophiles, 1873. 134
- Burty, Philippe. «L’exposition du cercle de la rue de Choiseul et de la société nationale des Beaux-arts». Gazette des beaux-arts: la doyenne des revues d’art 16, nr. 4 (1864): 366–72. 369
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