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Eugene Delacroix 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
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Painting ID:: 930 Girl Seated in a Cemetery
1824
Musee du Louvre
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Painting ID:: 931 Woman of Algiers in their Apartment
1834
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 932 The Death of Sardanapalus
1827-28
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 933 Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi
1826
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
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Painting ID:: 934 Female Nude Reclining on a Divan
1825-26
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Eugene Delacroix
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
. Related Artists to Eugene Delacroix: | Ion Andreescu | Frank Buscher | August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen | Charlotte Wahlstrom | Master of the observanza Triptych |
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