Delacroix

A Garden Path at Augerville
by Eugène Delacroix
Owner/Location: Private collection
Dates: circa 1855
Dimensions: Height: 30 cm (11.81 in.), Width: 42 cm (16.54 in.)
Medium: Pastel on paper

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When the Loire Valley Château d'Augerville was owned by Monsieur Antoine Pierre Berryer, an advocate and counselor to the French parliament, one of his frequent guests was Eugène Delacroix. When it was later owned by Madame Alva Belmont, formerly Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt, she had the river flowing through the estate widened because she said, as her daughter Consuelo Vanderbilt later wrote, "This river is not wide enough." (Per Wiki)

The Château is now a hotel.