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For the Eugène Delacroix exhibition in 1930, the Daumier exhibition and the Manet exhibition at the French National Museums, Mourlot became the place where posters were prepared and produced as works of art in their own right. Another important feature would be the production of fine art, limited edition lithographs.
At the sale of his work in 1864, 9140 works were attributed to Delacroix, including 853 paintings, 1525 pastels and water colours, 6629 drawings, 109 lithographs, and over 60 sketch books. [40] The number and quality of the drawings, whether done for constructive purposes or to capture a spontaneous movement, underscored his explanation ...
Christ Asleep during the Tempest is an oil on canvas painting by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix, executed c. 1853. [1] The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. [2] [3] Delacroix painted at least six versions of the biblical story of Christ sleeping during a storm while on the Sea of Galilee.
The work was painted as a reaction against Paul Delaroche's Cromwell and Charles I [], exhibited at the 1831 Paris Salon, the first to be held after the July Revolution and Louis-Philippe I's seizure of power – Delacroix's own Liberty Leading the People had been exhibited at the same Salon.
The Barque of Dante (French: La Barque de Dante), also Dante and Virgil in Hell (Dante et Virgile aux enfers), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and is a work signalling the shift in the character of narrative painting, from Neo-Classicism towards Romanticism. [1]
Ovid Among the Scythians is the title of two oil paintings by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, executed in 1859 and 1862.The less famous second version was painted to integrate the figures and landscape and rectified the problems of scale of the first version, which had an unusual composition and strange scale of the characters, provoking negative criticism, even among Delacroix's admirers ...
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (French: La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi) is an 1826 oil painting by French painter Eugène Delacroix, and now preserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
Christ on the Cross (1835) by Eugène Delacroix. Christ on the Cross, Christ between Two Thieves or Calvary is an 1835 painting by the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix. [1] It was not made for a church, but instead was a reinterpretation of a composition by Peter Paul Rubens, Christ on the Cross (The Coup de Lance) of 1620. [2]