French Romantic Painter, 1798-1863 For 40 years Eugene Delacroix was one of the most prominent and controversial painters in France. Although the intense emotional expressiveness of his work placed the artist squarely in the midst of the general romantic outpouring of European art, he always remained an individual phenomenon and did not create a school. As a personality and as a painter, he was admired by the impressionists, postimpressionists, and symbolists who came after him. Born on April 28, 1798, at Charenton-Saint-Maurice, the son of an important public official, Delacroix grew up in comfortable upper-middle-class circumstances in spite of the troubled times. He received a good classical education at the Lycee Imperial. He entered the studio of Pierre Narcisse Guerin in 1815, where he met Theodore Gericaul
Illustration for Goethe's Faust
1825-27 Pencil on beige paper, 225 x 295 mm Mus?e du Louvre, Paris The scene of Faust and Mephisto Gallop through the Night of the Witches' Sabbath is an illustration for Goethe's Faust, Verse 4399-4404. In this work everything is movement and expression. Author: DELACROIX, Eug?ne Title: Illustration for Goethe's Faust Form: graphics , 1801-1850 , French , other