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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:: 43954
Fan with Caricatures
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 43956
Illustration for Goethe-s Faus
1825-27
225 x 295 mm
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Painting ID:: 43957
Sketch for The Death of Sardanapalus
c. 1827
Pastel over graphite, chalk and crayon on unbleached paper,
440 x 580 mm
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Painting ID:: 43959
Female Nude, Killed from Behind
c. 1827
Pastel, red and white chalk on paper,
400 x 270 mm
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Painting ID:: 43961
Study of Sky
c. 1849
Pastel,
190 x 240 mm
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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: | HOUCKGEEST, Gerard | ASAM, Egid Quirin | SACCHI, Andrea | John Liston Byam Shaw | master of the Holy Kindred |
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