Eugène Delacroix

1798–1863 · France · Romanticism

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school. Wikipedia

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Energetic, loose brushwork, blazing colour, exotic North African and dramatic historical scenes full of violence and passion.

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“Liberty Leading the People”, 1830 — Louvre
“The Massacre at Chios”, 1824 — Louvre
“Death of Sardanapalus”, 1827 — Louvre
“The Barque of Dante”, 1822 — Louvre
“The Women of Algiers”, 1834 — Louvre
“Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi”, 1826 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
“Orphan Girl at the Cemetery”, 1824 — Louvre
“A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother”, 1830 — Louvre
“Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople”, 1840 — Louvre
“The Abduction of Rebecca”, 1846 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Murder of the Bishop of Liège”, 1828 — Louvre
“Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius”, 1844 — Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
“Ovid Among the Scythians”, 1859 — National Gallery
“Woman with a Parrot”, 1827 — Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
“Lion Hunt in Morocco”, 1854 — Hermitage Museum
“Muley-Abd-Err-Rahmann, sultan du Maroc sortant de son palais de Mequinez”, 1845 — Musée des Augustins
“The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero”, 1826 — Wallace Collection
“Arabs playing chess”, 1847 — National Galleries of Scotland
“Battle of Nancy (1477)”, 1831 — Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy
“Arab Saddling his Horse”, 1855 — Hermitage Museum
“Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand”, 1837 — Museum Ordrupgaard
“Jewish Wedding in Morocco”, 1839 — Louvre
“Mademoiselle Rose”, 1821 — Louvre
“Medea”, 1836 — Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
“Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard”, 1839 — Louvre
“The Death of Ophelia”, 1853 — Museum collection Am Römerholz
“The Lion Hunt”
“Self-portrait with Green Vest”, 1837 — Louvre
“Louis d'Orleans shows his mistress”, 1825 — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
“Arab Horses fighting in a stable”, 1860 — Louvre
“Horse Frightened by Lightning”, 1824 — Museum of Fine Arts
“Painter Louis-Auguste Schwiter at the Fog Weg Evening Fall ...«Hardo Menia Ferdi...»!”, 1827 — National Gallery
“La Chasse aux lions au Maroc”, 1861 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Nature morte au homard et trophées de chasse et de pêche”, 1827 — Louvre
“The Battle of Taillebourg, 21st July 1242”, 1837 — Palace of Versailles
“The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan”
“Jacob Wrestling with the Angel”, 1861 — Church of Saint-Sulpice
“La justice de Trajan”, 1840 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
“Tiger with a Tortoise”, 1862
“Christ on the Cross”, 1835 — musée de la Cohue

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