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Description: | Delacroix painted three versions of this scene; a larger version is in a private collection in Zürich and one has been lost. In one of his letters, written in 1831, the artist recalled reading Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter. (Cambridge 2002) Probably Mme Dalton, d.1859; returned to Delacroix by Dalton’s daughter, Mme Charlotte Turton; Marquis de Lambertye; Lambertye Sale, 4 February 1865, Lot 14, as Ballade écossais, bought Daru; Khalil Bey; Bey Sale, 16 January 1868, Lot 19, as Légende écossaise, bought Verdier; Ricardo Hérédia, Comte de Benahavis; Benahavis Sale, 20 June 1900, Lot 3, as Légende écossaise; Baron Joseph Vitta of Lyon by 1930; Terlinden, Zurich, d.1968; Private Collection, Switzerland from 1968; purchased 1980 through the V&A.
Accession number: NCM 1980-195 | Subjects: | horses literature figures landscapes bridges superstitions and beliefs | Temporal: | 1825 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | by DELACROIX/Ferdinand Victor Eugène | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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