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Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix

French, 1798-1863
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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action.

However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible." Together with Ingres, Delacroix is considered one of the last old Masters of painting, and one of the few who was ever photographed.

As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Sheet with Nine Antique Medals

Sheet with Nine Antique Medals (1825)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Sheet with Seven Antique Medals

Sheet with Seven Antique Medals (1825)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Sheet with Six Antique Medals

Sheet with Six Antique Medals (1825)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Study of a Woman Seen from the Back

Study of a Woman Seen from the Back (1833)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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The Blacksmith

The Blacksmith (1833)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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The Blacksmith

The Blacksmith (1833)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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The Crayfish of Longchamps

The Crayfish of Longchamps (1822)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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The Sister of Duguesclin

The Sister of Duguesclin (1829)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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The Wild Horse, or Frightened Horse Leaving the Water

The Wild Horse, or Frightened Horse Leaving the Water (1828)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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The Wild Horse, or Frightened Horse Leaving the Water

The Wild Horse, or Frightened Horse Leaving the Water (1828)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Tiger Sleeping at the Entrance to His Lair

Tiger Sleeping at the Entrance to His Lair (c. 1828–30)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Tigre Royal

Tigre Royal (1829)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Women of Algiers

Women of Algiers (1833)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Young Tiger Playing with its Mother

Young Tiger Playing with its Mother (1831)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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A Young Black Woman Fetching Water

A Young Black Woman Fetching Water (1832)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Figurative
Moroccans in the Countryside

Moroccans in the Countryside (1832)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Figurative
Greek Cavalry Men Resting in Forest

Greek Cavalry Men Resting in Forest (1858)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Landscape
Royal Tiger

Royal Tiger (1829)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Hamlet and Guildenstern (Act III, scene ii)

Hamlet and Guildenstern (Act III, scene ii) (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Hamlet and Horatio with the gravediggers (Act V, scene I)

Hamlet and Horatio with the gravediggers (Act V, scene I) (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Hamlet and Laertes fight in the grave (Act V, scene I

Hamlet and Laertes fight in the grave (Act V, scene I (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Hamlet and Ophelia (Act III, scene i)

Hamlet and Ophelia (Act III, scene i) (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Hamlet and Polonius (Act II, scene ii)

Hamlet and Polonius (Act II, scene ii) (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Hamlet and the body of Polonius (Act III scene iv)

Hamlet and the body of Polonius (Act III scene iv) (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Hamlet and the Queen (Act III scene iv

Hamlet and the Queen (Act III scene iv (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Hamlet has actors play the scene of his father’s poisoning (Act III, scene ii)

Hamlet has actors play the scene of his father’s poisoning (Act III, scene ii) (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Hamlet tries to kill the King (Act III, scene iii)

Hamlet tries to kill the King (Act III, scene iii) (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Hamlet wants to follow his father’s ghost (Act I, scene iv)

Hamlet wants to follow his father’s ghost (Act I, scene iv) (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Ophelia’s madness (Act IV, scene v)

Ophelia’s madness (Act IV, scene v) (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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The death of Hamlet (Act V, scene ii)

The death of Hamlet (Act V, scene ii) (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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