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Portrait of Delacroix early in his career. Eugène Delacroix was born on 26 April 1798 at Charenton-Saint-Maurice in Île-de-France, near Paris. His mother was Victoire Oeben, the daughter of the cabinetmaker Jean-François Oeben. He had three much older siblings.
Christ on the Cross (Delacroix) Convulsionists of Tangiers; Cromwell at Windsor Castle; Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I; Delacroix (crater) Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople; Eugène Delacroix; Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi; Head of an Old Greek Woman; Henri-François Riesener; Henriette de Verninac; Homage to Delacroix
The 1834 painting was first displayed at the Salon of 1834 in Paris, where it received mixed reviews. The art critic Gustave Plance wrote in a review for Revue des deux mondes that Delacroix's painting Femmes d'Alger dans leur Appartement was about painting and nothing more, painting that is fresh, vigorous, advanced with spirit, and of an audacity completely venetian, yet yielding nothing to ...
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.
Delacroix (1798-1863), Metropolitan Museum of Art (12 September 2018 - 6 January 2019) References: Eugène Delacroix catalog raisonné, 1885, 247 ; The private collection of Edgar Degas - A summary catalogue, 199; Q130748738, 62; Joconde work ID: 000PE000951 ; Louvre Museum ARK ID: 010059091 ; Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur PID: 0001416851
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.
A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother is an 1830–1831 painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix depicting two enormous tigers "playing" with each other. Painted early in his career, it shows how the artist was attracted to animal subjects in this period. [1]
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix. The Salon of 1831 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris between June and August 1831. [1] It was the first Salon during the July Monarchy and the first to be held since the Salon of 1827, as a planned exhibition of 1830 was cancelled due to the French Revolution of 1830.