Study of a Calcutta Indian (Primary Title)
Referred to as Etude d'Indie de Calcutta in Mellon transfer documents. (Alternate Title)

Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798 - 1863 (Artist)

ca. 1820
French
oil on canvas
Unframed: 18 1/4 × 14 7/8 in. (46.36 × 37.78 cm)
Framed: 21 1/4 × 19 in. (53.98 × 48.26 cm)
2006.50
This casually composed and quickly executed painting is part of a series of costume studies of the same Bengali Indian – possibly a merchant visitor to France. Along with other sketches of similar subjects, this painting represents a fascination with South Asian and other foreign cultures that Delacroix considered the living embodiment of antiquity.
unsigned, undated
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
2018-2020: "Gallery Takeover: European Masterpieces from the Mellon Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, March 1, 2018 - March 1, 2020
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