
Peter Rees
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Provenance
With Stefanie Maison, London.
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above in 1973).
Exhibited
Paris, Louvre, Delacroix, 1963, no. 335 (according to a label attached to the reverse).
Please note that the artist undertook a number of preparatory studies for Muley-Abd-Err-Rahmann, Sultan of Morocco. As well as the aforementioned Louvre exhibition in 1963, some of these studies were included in an exhibition of Delacroix's work in 1937, held at Galeries Maurice Gobin, Paris. Studies for the finished work are held in the collection of Musee Louvre, as well as in private collections. Please further note that the present work was no 339 at the Louvre exhibition, not as stated in the catalogue.