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Eugène Delacroix - Ovid Among The Scythians

Ovid Among The Scythians (1862)

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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Tiger On The Look-Out

Tiger On The Look-Out

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Satyr Embracing A Nymph, After Peter-Paul Rubens

Satyr Embracing A Nymph, After Peter-Paul Rubens

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The Abduction of Rebecca

The Abduction of Rebecca (1846)

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Two Boats at the Harbor of Dieppe

Two Boats at the Harbor of Dieppe (1854)

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

Study of a Woman Seen from the Back (1833)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero

The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero (1825 - 1826)

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The Spring – Eurydice bitten by a serpent while picking flowers (Eurydice’s death)

The Spring – Eurydice bitten by a serpent while picking flowers (Eurydice’s death) (1856-1863)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Beweinung Christi

Beweinung Christi (1857)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Etude d’apres un chien mort

Etude d’apres un chien mort (ca. 1830)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Arabes d’Oran

Arabes d’Oran (1833)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Studies of a Fallen Male Nude for ‘Hercules and the Horses of Diomedes’

Studies of a Fallen Male Nude for ‘Hercules and the Horses of Diomedes’ (1852)

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

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

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Interior Of A Church; Ordination Of Carmelites

Interior Of A Church; Ordination Of Carmelites

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
Studies of a right Leg

Studies of a right Leg (ca. 1835 – 1849)

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
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