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Eugène Delacroix - Head of a Horse, after the Parthenon

Head of a Horse, after the Parthenon (ca. 1825)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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Eugène Delacroix

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

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Mathurin Régnier (ca. 1846)

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Löwin, die Brust eines Arabers zerreißend (1849)

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Scene from Hamlet

Scene from Hamlet

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Study For L’agriculture

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Study for ‘The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage’

Study for ‘The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage’ (1845)

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A Bearded Man, Standing, and a Classical Head

A Bearded Man, Standing, and a Classical Head (1815–63)

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Attila suivi de ses hordes barbares foule aux pieds l’Italie et les Arts (1844)

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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)

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Dead Dog

Dead Dog (ca. 1830)

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Angelica and the wounded Medoro

Angelica and the wounded Medoro (circa 1860)

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Desdémone maudite par son père

Desdémone maudite par son père (1852)

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Study of a Horse

Study of a Horse (c. 1820-30)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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