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Two Delacroix drawings put up for auction identified thanks to Goya’s ‘Caprichos’ in Nineteenth-Century France

The well-known Parisian gallery Cabinet de Bayser has put up for auction two drawings that have been correctly identified and attributed to Eugène Delacroix as a result of the publication of Paula Fayos Pérez’s book Goya’s ‘Caprichos’ in Nineteenth-Century France. Politiques of the Grotesque and with the author’s collaboration. One of them, catalogued in the book as D35, is ‘No one has seen us’ after Goya and its whereabouts was previously unknown. The other, a sheet with Studies of heads after Goya, could be another of the hitherto unlocated drawings or a new one from the Bauer collection. Progress has thus been made in reconstructing the fascinating corpus of drawings by the French artist based on Francisco de Goya’s prints.