Scuplture Gallery door-way at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, by Eyre Crowe (1855)
Medium: Pen, ink and wash
Size: 21.1 cm x 31.8 cm
Current owner: V&A, London
This sketch was made in 1855, during Eyre Crowe’s time in Paris between 1852 and 1856. It shows people and carts arriving bearing sculptures for the exhibition. It is very similar to the sketch Delivery Entrance of Palais des Beaux Arts at the Exposition Universelle of 1855.
The sketch was apparently sold by Abbott and Holder to the V&A in 2012 (List 416).
It is the same drawing which was previously auctioned in May 2011 by Bellmans Auctioneers and Valuers, West Sussex, as ‘Back view of the Sculpture Gallery doorway, Louvre’ and described as undated. It fetched £65. The image supplied in this sale showed the sketch in a mount which obscured the signature, date and title which can now be seen.
An image of the sketch and further information is available on the Museum’s website.
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 