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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (/ ˈ d ɛ l ə k r w ɑː, ˌ d ɛ l ə ˈ k r w ɑː / DEL-ə-krwah, - KRWAH; [1] French: [øʒɛn dəlakʁwa]; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
This was the first of his published works. He completed his doctoral thesis in 1958 under the supervision of Anthony Blunt, and this thesis was to be the basis of his first book, Delacroix, published in 1963—the centenary of the artist's death. By this time he had been made a lecturer at the Department of Fine Art, Toronto, where he was ...
Louis d'Orléans Showing Off His Mistress is an oil painting on canvas produced in 1825–1826 by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. It shows Louis I, Duke of Orléans , his chamberlain Albert Le Flamenc and Mariette d'Enghien , who was both Le Flamenc's wife and the Duke's mistress. [ 1 ]
By the time Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People, he was already the acknowledged leader of the Romantic school in French painting. [4] Delacroix, who was born as the Age of Enlightenment was giving way to the ideas and style of romanticism, rejected the emphasis on precise drawing that characterised the academic art of his time, and instead gave a new prominence to freely brushed colour.
The episode on a maiolica plate, Urbino, 16th century. The Justice of Trajan by Eugène Delacroix, 1840.. The Justice of Trajan is a legendary episode in the life of Roman Emperor Trajan, based upon Dio Cassius' account (Epitome of Book LXVIII, chapter 10): "He did not, however, as might have been expected of a warlike man, pay any less attention to the civil administration nor did he dispense ...
Eugénie Dalton or D'Alton (née Geneviève-Charlotte Simon), (7 September 1802 or 1803 - 9 February 1859) was a dancer as well as pupil and mistress of Eugène Delacroix. Her older brother, François Simon (1800-1877), was a star dancer at the Paris Opera from 1822 to 1842 and commissioned several portraits from Delacroix.
The Natchez is an oil-on-canvas painting executed ca. 1834–35 by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix. It depicts a Native American couple with their newborn child. The painting was inspired by a passage in Chateaubriand's Atala, which describes the family as the last members of the Natchez tribe after a massacre committed by the French.
This large painting depicts the last hours of the life of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Théophile Gautier, reviewing the painting when it was first shown at the Paris Salon of 1845, describes the scene: The emperor, on his deathbed, recommends his son Commodus to wise men, stoic philosophers like himself. These grave personages, with unkempt ...