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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:: 20907
Dante and Virgil (Corssing the Lake That Surrounds the Infernal City) also called the Barque of Dante (mk05)
1822
Canvas 74 1/2 x 95 1/4''(189 x 242 cm)Scene from Dante's Jnferno Canto VIII.Acquired at the Salon of 1822
INV 3820 (G/AR)
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Painting ID:: 20908
Orphan Girl at the Cemetery (mk05)
Canvas 26 x 21 1/4''(66 x 54 cm)Salon of 1824;given in 1906 INV 1652(G/AR)
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Painting ID:: 20909
Still Life with a Lobster and Trophies of Hunting and Fishing (mk05)
Canvas 32 x 42 1/4''(81 x 107 cm)Salon of 1827-1828;given in 1906 R.F 1661 (G/AR)
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Painting ID:: 20910
Scenes of the Massacres of Scio;Greek Families Awaiting Death or Slavery (mk05)
Canvas 165 x 139 1/4''(419 x 354 cm)Episode from the Greek War of Independence (1822).Acquired at the Salon of 1824 INV 3823(G/AR)
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Painting ID:: 20911
Frederic Chopin (mk05)
Canvas 18 x 15''(46 x 38 cm)Fragment of a double portrait with George Sand;the other part of the Picture is in the Ordrupgaard,Copenhagen;bequeathed in 1907 R.F 1717(G/AR)
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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: | Edward Henry Potthast Prints | Raphael Von Ambros | Pignoni, Simone | Frank Blackwell Mayer | Johann Gottfried Auerbach |
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