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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:: 20917
Death of Sardanapalus (mk05)
Canvas 154 1/4 x 192 1/4''(392 x 496 cm)Salon of 1827-1828;acquired in 1921 R.F 2346(MN)
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Painting ID:: 20918
The Shipwreck of Don Juan (mk05)
1840
Canvas 53 1/4 x 77 1/4''(135 x 196 cm)Scene from Byron,Don Juan,Canto II Salon of 1841;given in 1883 R.F 259 (G/AR)
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Painting ID:: 20919
Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople on 12 April 1204 (mk05)
1840
Canvas 162 x 195 1/2''(''(411 x 497 cm)Commissioned by Louis-Philippe in 1838 for the historic Galleries at Versailles.Entered the Louvre in 1885 INV 3821 (G/AR))
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Painting ID:: 20920
The Sea at Dieppe (mk05)
Card on wood 14 x 20''(35 x 51 cm)Painted from memory in 1852 Bequeathed in 1979 R.F 1979-46 (S/AR)
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Painting ID:: 20921
Lion Devouring a Rabbit (mk05)
Canvas 18 1/2 x 22''(47 x 56 cm)Bequeathed in 1902 R.F 1394(MN)
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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: | Jean Francois Boisselat | Hans Rottenhammer | Johan Fredrik Krouthen | claude lorraine | Jean-Francois Millet |
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