Baron Schwiter (Louis Auguste Schwiter, 1805–1889)

Eugène Delacroix

1826 · Lithograph; only state · Drawings and Prints

Baron Schwiter was related to Delacroix's friend Jean-Baptiste Pierret, and it was probably through this relationship that he met and became friends with Delacroix. The artist completed this portrait of his friend and fellow painter when the baron-to-be was just twenty-one. In the same year he began a painting of Schwiter, which was refused a place in the Salon of 1827; it was later purchased by Degas and now hangs in the National Gallery, London.

Artist

Eugène Delacroix

Date

1826

Medium

Lithograph; only state

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Derald H. and Janet Ruttenberg Gift and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1983