Costume studies of Barbarians [sic], Eugène Delacroix, circa 1825

Costume studies for characters from the high middle ages (from gauls ?). Two leaves under one frame. According to olivia voisin, these costume studies could be related to one of the comédie-française's plays le maire du palais by ancelot (1823), sigismond de bourgogne by viennet (1825), le siège de paris by arlincourt (1826), julien dans les gaules by étienne de jouy (1827) or blanche d’aquitaine by hippolyte bis (1827) (voisin, olivia, "romantic painters as costumiers: the stage as pictorial battlefield". In art, theatre, and opera in paris, 1750-1850, routledge, 2017, p. 129-130. ). Date: circa 1825. Dimensions: 17.5 x 26 cm at sight. Medium: pencil and watercolor. DELACROIX Études de costumes de barbare