A Young Black Woman Fetching Water

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A Young Black Woman Fetching Water, 1832. Watercolor and graphite, heightened with gouache on paper.

Watercolor and graphite, heightened with gouache on paper · Support: 32.4 x 25.9 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art

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Museum title: A Young Black Woman Fetching Water
Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)
Date: 1832
Medium: Watercolor and graphite, heightened with gouache on paper
Dimensions: Support: 32.4 x 25.9 cm (12 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.); Matted: 34.9 x 27.9 cm (13 3/4 x 11 in.); Sheet: 23.5 x 16.4 cm (9 1/4 x 6 7/16 in.)
Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Cleveland Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1798–1863

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.