L'appartement du Comte de Mornay

Adolphe Martial Potémont, called Martial

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Delacroix accompanied the Comte de Mornay to Morocco and made an important series of watercolors during and after that journey. In 1833 he made an oil painting of the comte's apartment on the rue de Verneuil, Paris whose interior was decorated with fabric to resemble a blue and white striped tent. In 1873 the painting was exhibited as part of the collection John W. Wilson, at La Galerie du Cercle Artisque et Litterare, du Bruxelles and this etching created to illustrated a related catalogue.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Metropolitan Museum of Art