Sunday, January 9, 2022

Romantic Narrator - Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Eugène Delacroix
The Barque of Dante
1822
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Eugène Delacroix
The Barque of Dante (detail)
1822
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Eugène Delacroix
Combat of the Giaour and Hassan
1826
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Eugène Delacroix
Sketches for The Death of Sardanapalus
ca. 1827
pastel
Musée du Louvre

Eugène Delacroix
The Death of Sardanapalus (detail)
1827
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Eugène Delacroix
The Death of Sardanapalus (detail)
1827
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Eugène Delacroix
The Death of Sardanapalus
1844
oil on canvas
(reduced autograph replica)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Eugène Delacroix
Crucifixion, with Mary Magdalen
1829
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Eugène Delacroix
28 July - Liberty leading the People
1830
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Eugène Delacroix
28 July - Liberty leading the People (detail)
1830
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Eugène Delacroix
28 July - Liberty leading the People (detail)
1830
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Eugène Delacroix
Return of Christopher Columbus
1839
oil on canvas
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

Eugène Delacroix
Christ on the Sea of Galilee
1841
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Eugène Delacroix
Sketch for Lion Hunt
1854
oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Eugène Delacroix
Lion Hunt
1855
oil on canvas
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

"By the late 1820s Delacroix was seen as the leader of the Romantic faction in French art, while Ingres was honoured as the head of contemporary classicism.  Ingres's disdain for Delacroix was open; Delacroix did not, however, accept the role thrust on him, always asserting his respect for the classical tradition."

– Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)