Adoration of the Magi, after Rubens

Eugène Delacroix|Peter Paul Rubens

ca. 1830 · Graphite · Drawings and Prints

Delacroix referred to reproductive prints in his copying practice even when he had the opportunity to see a painting in person. Rubens’s "Adoration of the Magi" (ca. 1616–17; now King’s College Chapel, Cambridge) was at Grosvenor House in London, where Delacroix might well have seen it during his 1825 visit to the English capital. However, this drawing, which concentrates on the kings and indicates the Holy Family only summarily, corresponds to the reversed orientation of an engraving.

Artist

Eugène Delacroix|Peter Paul Rubens

Date

ca. 1830

Medium

Graphite

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 2013