Delacroix Oil Study Discovered in Living Room of French Home, Estimated at $325 K.
13-03-2025 16:56 via artnews.com

Delacroix Oil Study Discovered in Living Room of French Home, Estimated at $325 K.

An oil study depicting a lion has officially been attributed to Eugène Delacroix, a key figure of the Romanticist movement of the 19th century, and will now head to sale in France.The Daguerre Val de Loire auction house announced the attribution this week, saying that the owners of the oil study didn’t previously know that they held a Delacroix. The study now could sell for as much as $325,800.According to auctioneer Malo de Lussac, the study had long been displayed in the living ro
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