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Catalogue entry

FWN 1841-TA
D'après Delacroix: L'éducation d'Achille
n.d.
Alternate titles: Centaur holding bow, mounted by nude figure of an archer (after Delacroix); Education of Achilles, after Delacroix
Graphite on paper
11 7/16 x 7 7/8 in. (29 x 20 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 3957, D'après l'ancien: L'Amour et Centaure; dessin, 27 x 18 (100)
Sotheby's, London

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Simon Meller, Budapest, Paris and Munich (1923)
Sir Hugh Walpole, London
Rt. Hon. Lady Walston;
Sotheby's, London, Dec. 2, 1992, no. 104, ill.
Exhibition History
1938 London
Matthiesen Gallery, London, A Century of French Drawings: from Prud'hon to Picasso, May 3–31, 1938, no. 22, as Centaur holding bow, mounted by nude figure of an archer (after Delacroix), pencil, 10 1/4 by 7 1/2 ins. lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
1945a London
Leicester Galleries, London, The Art Collection of the late Sir Hugh Walpole, Part I, April 11–May 8, 1945, no. 102, as Education of Achilles, after Delacroix.
Notes

This drawing is based on Delacroix's studies for one of the pendentives of the cupola of Peotry in the library of the Palais Bourbon (Assemblée Nationale, Paris).

D'après Delacroix: L'éducation d'Achille, n.d. (FWN 1841-TA). Eugène Delacroix, L'éducation d'Achille, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Eugène Delacroix, L'éducation d'Achille, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: © RMN
Record last updated October 2, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Delacroix: L'éducation d'Achille, n.d. (FWN 1841-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=3383 (accessed on May 2, 2025).