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Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
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culture · French painter (1798–1863) · painter · diarist · lithographer · photographer · draftsperson · muralist · architectural drafter · pastellist · visual artist · also Eugène Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix, Eugene Delacroix, Ferdinand-Eugène-Victor Delacroix
Born 26 April 1798 · Died 13 August 1863 · Q33477
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 3 entries
Le Temps: Comment Eugène Delacroix dut se battre contre un autre Eugène Delacroix
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Observer: Eugène Delacroix
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Le Figaro: Un tableau inédit d'Eugène Delacroix découvert près de Tours
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2023· 1 entry
Le Figaro: À Ornans, Eugène Delacroix va cohabiter avec Gustave Courbet
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2019· 1 entry
The Art Newspaper: The travel books of Eugène Delacroix have now been translated into English
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2018· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: ‘Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix’ Review: A Master off the Canvas
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Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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2015· 1 entry
SFGate: Fine Arts Museums reacquire Eugène Delacroix portrait
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1864· 1 entry
9140 works were attributed to Delacroix, including 853 paintings, 1525 pastels and water colours, 6629 drawings, 109 lithographs, and over 60 sketch books
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1863· 4 entries
Died 1863-08-13.
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Career landmark: funeral.
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“Les artistes qui cherchent la perfection en tout sont ceux qui ne peuvent l'atteindre en aucune partie.”
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The society organized a retrospective exhibition of 248 paintings and lithographs by Delacroix—and ceased to mount any further exhibitions
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1862· 1 entry
Delacroix participated in the creation of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
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1855· 3 entries
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1855).
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A critic described the painting's vibrant handling as "Less finished than a painting, more finished than a sketch, The Murder of the Bishop of Liège was left by the painter at that supreme moment when one more stroke of
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That "nothing can be compared with the emotion caused by music; that it expresses incomparable shades of feeling
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1846· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1846).
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1838· 1 entry
Delacroix exhibited Medea about to Kill Her Children, which created a sensation at the Salon
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1832· 1 entry
Delacroix traveled to Spain and North Africa in company with the diplomat Charles-Edgar de Mornay, as part of a diplomatic mission to Morocco shortly after the French conquered Algeria
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1831· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1831).
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1830· 1 entry
With the painting Liberty Leading the People, which for choice of subject and technique highlights the differences between the romantic approach and the neoclassical style
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1825· 1 entry
Included visits to Thomas Lawrence and Richard Parkes Bonington, and the colour and handling of English painting provided impetus for his only full-length portrait, the elegant Portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter (1826–30
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1815· 1 entry
Began his training with Pierre-Narcisse Guérin in the neoclassical style of Jacques-Louis David
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1805· 1 entry
And his mother in 1814, leaving 16-year-old Eugène an orphan
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1798· 1 entry
Born 1798-04-26.
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