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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 ...
While Delacroix was widely noted for his figure-centric romanticist paintings, he produced a number of expressive landscape works during his later years. [1] Among these works is Sunset, done by Delacroix circa 1850. The drawing depicts a sunset partially blocked by two cloud formations, one directly above the Earth and a second, thicker band ...
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.
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]
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]
The museum is located in painter Eugène Delacroix's last apartment; he moved to this location on December 28, 1857, and remained until his death on August 13, 1863. In 1929, the Société des Amis d'Eugène Delacroix was formed to prevent the building's destruction; in 1952, the Société acquired the apartment, studio, and garden, and in 1954 donated the property to the French government.
The Entombment of Christ (1820) by Eugène Delacroix. The Entombment of Christ is an 1820 painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, constituting a minor reworking of The Entombment of Christ, a c.1520 work by Titian. He left it to his pupil Paul Chenavard, who in 1881 left it to the musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, where it still hangs.
Delacroix's preliminary sketch (before 1838), now at the Louvre, for the joint portrait. George Sand (left) sews while Chopin plays piano. [1] Modern and hypothetical reconstruction of the painting by an unknown artist. The Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand was an 1838 unfinished oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Eugène ...