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Vercingétorix

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)
1829

Medium/Technique Crayon lithograph
Dimensions Overall: 24.8 x 18.4cm (9 3/4 x 7 1/4in.)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number60.270
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Delteil 090 ii
DescriptionPrinted by G. Engelmann
Famous artists (Ingres and Géricault, as well as Delacroix) were commissioned to execute historical endpieces in the early volumes of Picturesque and Romantic Travels in Old France.
Inscriptionsll: "Lacroix 1829"; lr: "Lith de Engelmann"
ProvenanceW.G. Russell Allen (1882-1955, Boston); by whom given to MFA by his estate April 14, 1960