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
Eugene Delacroix The Death of Ophelia (mk05) Canvas 9 x 12 1/4''(23 x 31 cm)Scene from Shakespeare,Hamlet,Act IV Bequeathed in 1902 R.F 1393(G/AR)
Rebecca Abducted by the Templar (mk05) 1858
Canvas 41 1/4 x 32 1/4''(105 x 82 cm)Scene from Walter Scott,Ivanhoe,Chapter XXIX.Salon of 1859;bequeathed in 1902.R.F 1392(G/AR) Painting ID:: 20914
Eugene Delacroix Rebecca Abducted by the Templar (mk05) 1858
Canvas 41 1/4 x 32 1/4''(105 x 82 cm)Scene from Walter Scott,Ivanhoe,Chapter XXIX.Salon of 1859;bequeathed in 1902.R.F 1392(G/AR)
Algerian Women in Their Appartments (mk05) 1834
Canvas 71 x 90 1/4''(180 x 229 cm)Acquired at the Salon of 1834 INV 3824(S/AR) Painting ID:: 20915
Eugene Delacroix Algerian Women in Their Appartments (mk05) 1834
Canvas 71 x 90 1/4''(180 x 229 cm)Acquired at the Salon of 1834 INV 3824(S/AR)
Portrait of the Artist (mk05) Canvas 25 1/2 x 21 1/2''(65 x 55 cm)Bequeathed by Delacroix to Jenny Le Guillou,his housekeeper,on the condition of giving it to the Louvre after the return to power of the Orleans family;sent to the Louvre by the painter Andrieu in 1872 R.F 25 (G/AR) Painting ID:: 20916
Eugene Delacroix Portrait of the Artist (mk05) Canvas 25 1/2 x 21 1/2''(65 x 55 cm)Bequeathed by Delacroix to Jenny Le Guillou,his housekeeper,on the condition of giving it to the Louvre after the return to power of the Orleans family;sent to the Louvre by the painter Andrieu in 1872 R.F 25 (G/AR)
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