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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.
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.
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.
The Sultan of Morocco is an 1845 oil on canvas painting by the French Romantic and Orientalist painter Eugène Delacroix, now in the Musée des Augustins de Toulouse. [1] Its full title is Moulay Abd-Er-Rahman, Sultan of Morocco, leaving his palace of Meknès, surrounded by his guards and his principal officers .
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 1846 version of Abduction is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which describes the work as "one of Delacroix’s greatest paintings". [1] In 1858 Delacroix created an almost identical work for the Paris Salon of 1859; the second version of Abduction is in the collection of the Louvre .
Lycée Franco-Hellenique was created in 1974, on the site of the small school "Collaros" that operated without statues, on the premises of the French Institute of Greece on Sina Street, thanks to the political will of Konstantinos Karamanlis and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, respectively Greek and French presidents.
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]