The Entombment (after Peter Paul Rubens)
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)

Purchased at the Delacroix studio sale, Vente Eugène Delacroix, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 17, 18, 19, 1864, lot 166, as Le Christ mis au tombeau, by M. Lecoq, Paris, 1864.
Dr. Hans Graber, Zürich, by 1939 [1].
With Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris.
With Knoedler & Co., New York, stock book. No. A6724, by January 8, 1958;
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co. by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1958.

[1] This owner lent the work to the exhibition Eugène Delacroix, Kunsthaus, Zürich, January 28–April 6, 1939, no. 377

Eugène Delacroix, Kunsthaus, Zürich, January 28–April 6, 1939, no. 377, lent by Dr. H. Graber, Zürich.

One Hundred Years of French Painting (1860–1960), Phoenix Art Museum, February 1–26, 1961; Oakland Museum of California, March 5–31, 1961, no. 25.

Rubenism, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, January 30–February 23, 1975, no. 83.

Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.

Catalogue de la vente qui aura lieu par suite du décès de Eugène Delacroix (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, February 17, 18, 19, 1864), 23, no. 166, as Le Christ mis au tombeau.

Alfred Robaut, L’oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, Peintures, Dessins, Gravures, Lithographies (Paris: Charavay Freres, 1885), 475, no. 1946.

Raymond Escholier, Delacroix, Peintre, Graveur, Ecrivain (Paris: H. Floury, 1927), 2: 277.

Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat. (Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1939), 55, no. 377.

One Hundred Years of French Painting (1860–1960), exh. cat. (Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1961), no. 25.

Dorothy Burgess, “Delacroix a Leader in French Art Revolution,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, February 15, 1962, (repro.).

Barbara Erlich White, “Delacroix’s Copies After Rubens,” Art Bulletin 49 (March 1967): 44, 47, (repro.).

Rubenism, exh. cat. (Providence: Brown University, 1975), 262–63, (repro.).

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, a Comprehensive Guide to Locating and Enjoying over 300 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), 102.

Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue (1816–1831), vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), 218–19, D4.

Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue (1816–1831), vol 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), 1264.

Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 74–75, 76, (repro.).

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 24, 136–37, (repro.).