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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:: 10816
Arabian Horses Fighting in a Stable
1860, 2' 1 1/2" x 2' 8" (64.5 x 81 cm), Bequest of Count Isaac de Camondo, 1911. Deposit from the Louvre.
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Painting ID:: 10812
Charenton Saint Maurice
1798, Paris. 1863 Lion Hunt, Sketch, 1854. 2' 9 3/4" x 3' 9 1/4" ( 86 115 cm).
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Painting ID:: 10813
Tiger Hung
1854, 1' 11 1/2" x 2' 4 3/4" (60x73 cm). Bequest of Count Isaac de Camondo, 1911. Deposit from the Louvre.
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Painting ID:: 10814
Cleopatra and the Peasant
1838 Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina
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Painting ID:: 10817
Fording a Stream in Morocco
1' 11 1/2" x 2' 4 3/4" (60x73 cm). 1858, Bequest of Count Issa de Camondo.
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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: | Vleughels Nicolas | Hans von Aachen | Sebastiano del Piombo | Rae Iso | Lilla Cabot Perry |
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