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He eventually produced over 100 paintings and drawings of scenes from or based on the life of the people of North Africa, and added a new and personal chapter to the interest in Orientalism. [31] Delacroix was entranced by the people and their clothes, and the trip would inform the subject matter of a great many of his future paintings.
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 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.
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. [ 2 ]
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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
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 ...
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.