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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:: 62860
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
1854-61 Oil and wax on plaster, 751 x 485 cm (whole painting) Saint-Sulpice, Paris Jacob Wrestling with the Angel has been read as a summary of Delacroix's life and work. Indeed the leitmotif of his career is the struggle - a spiritual combat - between his aspiration to classicism and his Romantic genius, between his admiration for Racine and his love of Shakespeare. Artist: DELACROIX, Eugene Title: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (detail) , painting Date: 1801-1850 French : religious
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Painting ID:: 62873
Woman with a Parrot
1827 Oil on canvas, 24,5 x 32,5 cm Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyons Delacroix painted the Recumbent Odalisque, also known as Woman with a Parrot, on his return from England. Representing one of Delacroix's favourite models, Laure, it forms one of a series of nudes, which includes the Female Nude Reclining on a Divan in the Louvre and the Odalisque of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In their tonal refinement they emphasise the connections between Delacroix and Bonington. Artist: DELACROIX, Eugene Title: Woman with a Parrot , painting Date: 1801-1850 French : genre
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Painting ID:: 62875
The Death of Sardanapalus
1827 Oil on canvas Musee du Louvre, Paris The woman writhing at the foot of the royal bed as a dagger is raised to her throat wears an expression of suffering too voluptuous for contemporary taste. Artist: DELACROIX, Eugene Title: The Death of Sardanapalus (detail) , painting Date: 1801-1850 French : historical
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Painting ID:: 62876
The Death of Sardanapalus
1827 Oil on canvas Musee du Louvre, Paris Artist: DELACROIX, Eugene Title: The Death of Sardanapalus (detail) , painting Date: 1801-1850 French : historical
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Painting ID:: 67613
outono
Title English: The Autumn - Bacchus and Ariadne
Portugu X s: O Outono - Baco e Ariadne Dimensions 196 X 165 cm (77.17 X 64.96 in)
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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 Theodore Compton | Ilya Repin | Owen, William | William Waud | William George Richardson |
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