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Eugène Delacroix - Hercule tuant le centaure Nessus

Hercule tuant le centaure Nessus (1849 - 1852)

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 and Horatio in the Graveyard (1827–28)

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Three Arab Horsemen at an Encampment

Three Arab Horsemen at an Encampment (1832–37)

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Standing Academic Male Nude

Standing Academic Male Nude (1816)

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The Crayfish of Longchamps

The Crayfish of Longchamps (1822)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Arabere fra Oran

Arabere fra Oran (1833)

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Arab in front of his house

Arab in front of his house (1808 - 1863)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Hamlet devant le corps de Polonius

Hamlet devant le corps de Polonius (1854-1856)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
The Education Of The Virgin

The Education Of The Virgin

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

Sheet with Seven Antique Medals (1825)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Combat of Nude Men, after Raphael

Combat of Nude Men, after Raphael (ca. 1823)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Néréid

Néréid (Around 1822)

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

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

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Male Nude Posing for Figures in the ‘Frise de la Guerre’

Male Nude Posing for Figures in the ‘Frise de la Guerre’ (c. 1835)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Four figure studies of Bedouins and three of head studies

Four figure studies of Bedouins and three of head studies

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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