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Eugène Delacroix

Also known as Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix, Eugene Delacroix, Ferdinand-Eugène-Victor Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix, Ferdinand-Eugene-Victor Delacroix, Delacroix

French painter (1798–1863)

AI overview

Eugène Delacroix was a French painter who lived from 1798 to 1863 and is considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement in art. His dramatic use of color, emotional intensity, and exotic or historical subjects helped define 19th-century European painting and influenced generations of artists after him.

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Instance of: human
Given name: Eugène
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Saint-Maurice
Place of death: Paris
Father: Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Occupation: visual artist
Educated at: Lycée Pierre-Corneille
Languages spoken: French
Native language: French
Award: Commander of the Legion of Honour
Notable work: The Massacre at Chios
Student of: Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Field of work: painting
Genre: battle painting
Movement: Romanticism
Image: Félix Nadar 1820-1910 portraits Eugène Delacroix restored.jpg
Work location: London
Significant event: funeral

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relative: Henri-François Riesener
Commons category: Eugène Delacroix
cause of death: tuberculosis
date of birth: 1798-04-26
date of death: 1863-08-13
name in native language: Eugène Delacroix
Commons gallery: Eugène Delacroix
medical condition: tuberculosis
Commons Creator page: Eugène Delacroix
topic's main category: Category:Eugène Delacroix
manner of death: natural causes
member of: Société nationale des beaux-arts
significant person: Antoine-Louis Barye
sponsor: Alfred Bruyas
writing language: French
ethnic group: French
start of work period: 1815-01-01
end of work period: 1863-01-01
depicted by: Self-portrait with Green Vest
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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Eugène Delacroix, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Literary works

Charge de cavaliers arabes

Horses in the Stable

The Duke of Orléans showing his mistress

Dantes Vorhölle

Turkish women’s robbery

Kaiser Justinian als Gesetzgeber

Endgültige Skizze für 'Boissy d'Anglas grüßt den Kopf des Abgeordneten Féraud'

The flag carrier

Romeo and Juliet

Michelangelo in his studio

Pferderennen (Araber)

Abraham and Melchisedek, after Rubens

Female head

Portrait of Alfred Bruya’s patron

Muley-Abd-Err-Rahmann, Sultan von Marokko, verläßt seinen Palast in Meknès, umgeben von seiner Garde und seinen wichtigsten Offizieren

Studie zum Einzug der Kreuzfahrer in Konstantinopel

Expulsion from Paradise

Christ at the Marterpost

The lion hunt (fragment)

The Dantebarks

The bark Don Juans

Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi

Lady with valet

Arabs of Oran

Male Nude

Lion waiting for prey, another sleeping

Erminia bei den Hirten

The women of Algiers in their quarters

Portrait of Frédéric Chopin

Kampf zwischen Löwe und Tiger

Marokkanischer Kaid, der einen Stamm besucht

The Jewel Trader

Faust, Wagner und der Pudel, Vorstudie

Massacre of Chios

Christ on the Cross

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Encyclopedic overview

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (/ˈdɛləkrwɑː, ˌdɛləˈkrwɑː/ DEL-ə-krwah, -⁠KRWAH; French: [øʒɛn dəlakʁwa]; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded 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.

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