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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
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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