The Tribute Money
Eugène Delacroix
1843 · Graphite on tracing paper, laid down · Drawings and Prints
On the strength of his work in the Salon du Roi, Delacroix received a commission to decorate the Palais Bourbon’s newly completed library. This drawing on tracing paper represents part of his process of refinement in determining a composition for a pendentive devoted to the biblical subject of The Tribute Money, in which Jesus tells Peter he will find money for the temple tax in a fish’s mouth. Whereas Delacroix painted the Salon du Roi himself, he had the help of assistants for the library, which explains in part why more exacting drawings for this project exist.
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Date
- 1843
- Medium
- Graphite on tracing paper, laid down
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in memory of Frank Anderson Trapp, 2013
