Crouching Woman — Delacroix Pillow
Crouching Woman — Delacroix Pillow
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This chalk, pastel, and wash study from 1827 is one of five known pastel drawings Delacroix made while preparing his monumental Salon painting The Death of Sardanapalus, now in the Musée du Louvre and inspired by Lord Byron's 1821 tragedy. It captures one of the doomed Assyrian king's concubines in the instant before her death, her twisting, recoiling posture built from sweeping, urgent lines. Pastel studies are uncommon in Delacroix's surviving work, making this sheet a rare, intimate look at how the leader of French Romanticism worked out raw emotion before committing it to canvas.
Jacquard-woven both sides in soft, durable yarn; insert included.
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This is the second thing I have bought here and both have been good. The subject of Crouching Woman is what sold me, and it delivers. The quality of the materials is obvious the moment you handle it. The whole order took less than a week from checkout to opening it. Happy customer, and I don't say that often.
The subject is exactly what I wanted and the reproduction is only okay. The texture that makes Delacroix interesting is only half there in Crouching Woman. I ordered this for a lake house in Alabama and could not use it for a single weekend. I would think it over before ordering again.
Thank you for the balanced review. The shipping times you describe are longer than we want, and we are moving to a faster service this fall.
Everything about this went better than I hoped. I bought this for Crouching Woman and got far more than I paid for. Our driver leaves everything at the end of a long gravel driveway and it still arrived in perfect shape.
It made the kitchen feel finished in a way I could not manage on my own. The detail in Crouching Woman holds up with my face inches away. Our summers are so humid that I was nervous about ordering anything at all, and it has held up perfectly. This shop has a customer for life in me.
My mother liked hers so much that I ordered one too. The detail in Crouching Woman holds up with my face inches away. My whole family has commented on it and they never notice anything. The finish is even and flawless right to the edges. ✨



