Portrait of the Artist (mk05) Wood 25 1/2 x 20 1/2''(65 x 52 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869 new6/Jean Baptiste Greuze-258465.jpgPainting ID:: 20750
Portrait of the Artist (mk05) 1794
Canvas 32 x 25 1/4''(81 x 64 cm)Given by Eugene Isbey in 1852 INV new6/Jacques-Louis David-823376.jpgPainting ID:: 20790
Portrait of the artist (mk05) 1825
Paper on canvas 13 x 10''(33 x 25 cm)Given in 1906 R.F 1608(G/AR) new6/Jean Baptiste Camille Corot-238696.jpgPainting ID:: 20886
Portrait of the Artist (mk05) Canvas 25 1/2 x 21 1/2''(65 x 55 cm)Bequeathed by Delacroix to Jenny Le Guillou,his housekeeper,on the condition of giving it to the Louvre after the return to power of the Orleans family;sent to the Louvre by the painter Andrieu in 1872 R.F 25 (G/AR) new6/Eugene Delacroix-342345.jpgPainting ID:: 20916
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
Portrait of the Artist (mk05) Canvas 25 1/2 x 21 1/2''(65 x 55 cm)Bequeathed by Delacroix to Jenny Le Guillou,his housekeeper,on the condition of giving it to the Louvre after the return to power of the Orleans family;sent to the Louvre by the painter Andrieu in 1872 R.F 25 (G/AR)