Botzaris Attacks the Turkish Camp

Medium: Oil On Canvas
Size: 55 x 92 cm

Provenance: Delacroix sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17-19 February 1864, lot 99; Bouché de Saint Aignan; Raymond de Cahuzac (by August, 1864; sale 14 November 1887, lot 6); Monsieur Foinard; Seguy sale, 21 March 1898, lot 19; Baron Blanquet de Fulde (sale, 12 March 1900, lot 25); Léon L’hermitte; Jacques Dupont, Paris; Private Collection.

Exhibited: Paris, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Eugène Delacroix, 1864, no. 109; Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Delacroix, 6 March - 15 April 1885, no. 42 (entitled La Mort de Botzaris); Paris, Musée du Louvre, Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863, Exposition du Centenaire, May - September 1963, no. 528.

Literature: A. Moreau, Delacroix et son oeuvre, Paris, 1873, no. 99, p. 315; A. Robaut, L'oeuvre complete d'Eugène Delacroix, peintures, dessins, gravures et lithographies, Paris, 1885, no. 1407, p. 378 (dated 1860); R. Escholier, Delacroix, peintre, gravure, écrivain, vol. III, Paris, 1929, p. 259; L. Johnson, "The Delacroix Centenary in France," The Burlington Magazine, (July, 1963), p. 302; P. Georgel, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Delacroix, Paris, 1984, no. 791 (ill. p. 182); L. Johnson, The Painting of Eugène Delacroix, A Critical Catalogue 1832-1863, Oxford, 1986, vol. III, no. M6, pp. 159, 301-02 (ill. vol. IV, pl. 318); Delacroix les dernières années, exh. cat., Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 1998, under no. 137, pp. 322-24; The painting will be included in the forthcoming supplement to Lee Johnson's catalogue raisonné of Delacroix's works.