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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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A Tomb and Studies of Windows in the Church of Valmont Abbey

A Tomb and Studies of Windows in the Church of Valmont Abbey (1829–31)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Hercule vainqueur d’Hippolyte, reine des Amazones

Hercule vainqueur d’Hippolyte, reine des Amazones (1849 - 1852)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Halbfigur Einer Marokkanerin

Halbfigur Einer Marokkanerin (1839)

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 murder of Polonius (Act III, scene iv)

The murder of Polonius (Act III, scene iv) (1864)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Desdémone maudite par son père

Desdémone maudite par son père (1852)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Les Deux Foscari

Les Deux Foscari (1855)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
The Sea at Dieppe

The Sea at Dieppe (ca. 1852–54)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Le corps de garde à Meknès

Le corps de garde à Meknès (1847)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Lion Attacking a Horse with Rider (Sketch for The Tiger Hunt)

Lion Attacking a Horse with Rider (Sketch for The Tiger Hunt) (ca. 1854)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Sheet of Four Antique Medals

Sheet of Four Antique Medals (1825)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
The Blacksmith

The Blacksmith (1833)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Study for l’Agriculture in the King Salon

Study for l’Agriculture in the King Salon

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Christ On The Sea Of Galilee

Christ On The Sea Of Galilee

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Allegory of Love; Infidelity

Allegory of Love; Infidelity

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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