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Dearest Friends. Drawings in the Collections of 19th-Century French Artists
Exhibition from 17 October 2026 to 17 January 2027
(2 June 2026)

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1. Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), Ruins of the Gate of the Heilig Kreuz Convent in Meissen, circa 1824
Graphite and watercolour, 21 × 14.9 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, inv. MBA 364.40.42
© Musées d’Angers
Formerly owned by Pierre-Jean David d’Angers (1788-1856)
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2. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), A Communion in Rome, 1806
Graphite and brown wash, 22.2 × 15.6 cm
Prat Collection, Paris
Formerly owned by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767-1824)
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3. Lancelot Théodore Turpin de Crissé (1782-1859), View of Capri, 1854
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over traces of graphite, 32.8 × 47 cm
Frits Lugt Collection, Fondation Custodia, Paris, inv. 2008-T.12
Formerly owned by Alfred Emilien O’Hara, comte de Nieuwerkerke (1811-1892)
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4. Théodore Gericault (1791-1824), The Artist’s Left Hand, circa 1823-1824
Black crayon, red chalk, watercolour, 22.5 × 29.5 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. RF 1397
© GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Sylvie Chan-Liat
Formerly owned by Pierre-François Lehoux (1803-1889)
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5. Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Portrait of Frédéric Chopin, circa 1838
Graphite and white chalk, 29.2 × 22.1 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. RF 31280
© GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Thierry Le Mage
Formerly owned by Léon Riesener (1808-1878)
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6. Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), A Hunter Stalking a Lion in the Mountains of North Africa, 1849
Pastel and charcoal, 24 × 31.1 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Derald H. Ruttenberg Foundation Gift, in honor of Nadine M. Orenstein, Karen B. Cohen Fund, and C. Jay Moorhead Foundation Gift, 2023, inv. 2023.476
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / image of the MMA
Formerly owned by Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
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7. Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), A Bouquet of Flowers, circa 1849-1850
Black crayon, watercolour, gouache, pastel, on two joint sheets of grey-blue paper, 65 × 65.4 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. RF 31 719
© GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado
Formerly owned by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
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8. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), The Connoisseur, circa 1860-1865
Pen and ink, wash, watercolour, lithographic crayon, gouache over black chalk, 43.8 × 35.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929, inv. 29.100.200
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / image of the MMA
Formerly owned by Jules Dupré (1811-1889)
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9. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), Two Connoisseurs and a Painter in a Studio
Pen and brown ink, charcoal, grey wash, 31.2 × 45.6 cm
Frits Lugt Collection, Fondation Custodia, Paris, inv. 2024-T.53
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10. Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864) and Paul Flandrin (1811-1902), Double Self-Portrait, 1835
Graphite crayon, 25.4 × 19.8 cm
Musée du Louvre, département des Arts graphiques, Paris, inv. RF 4021
© GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado
Formerly owned by Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
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11. Édouard Manet (1832-1883), Portrait of Mrs. Édouard Manet on a Blue Sofa, 1874
Pastel on brown paper, laid down on canvas, 49 × 60 cm
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, inv. RF 4507
© GrandPalaisRmn (musée d’Orsay) / Franck Raux
Formerly owned by Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
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12. Gustave Doré (1832-1883), Portrait of the Daughter of the Engraver Pierre Edmond Hédouin, circa 1877
Graphite and watercolour on cardboard, 35.8 × 27.3 cm
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Pissarro – Pontoise, Pontoise, inv. D.899.10.1
Formerly owned by Pierre Edmond Hédouin (1820-1889)
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