Studies of male heads and a standing male figure

Eugène Delacroix

Date unknown · Brush and gray wash, watercolor on laid paper · Drawings and Prints

Delacroix executed the variety of figures and heads that occupy the center of this sheet with the utmost economy of means. With a few strokes of his brush dipped in gray wash, he conveys a host of characters and expressions. The layered splotches of color that border the right and left sides show how the artist blotted and tested his watercolors.

Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Date: Date unknown
Medium: Brush and gray wash, watercolor on laid paper
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971

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