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Eugène Delacroix
French Romantic painter, lithographer, muralist, author, pastellist - draftsman
born 26 April 1798 - died 13 August 1863
Also known as: Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix.
Student of: Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774-1833).
Teacher of: Léon Bonnat (1833-1922), Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898).
Friend of: Léon Cogniet (1794-1880), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), Newton Fielding (1797-1856).
Patronized by: Duchesse de Berry Caroline (1798-1870).
Rival of: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), Ary Scheffer (1795-1858).
DELACROIX, FERDINAND VICTOR EUGENE (1798-1863), French historical
painter, leader of the Romantic movement, was born at
Charenton-St-Maurice, near Paris, on the 26th of April 1798. His father Charles Delacroix (1741—1805) was a
partisan of the most violent faction during the time of the Revolution,
and was foreign minister under the Directory. The family affairs seem to
have been conducted in the wildest manner, and the accidents that befell
the child, well authenticated as they are said to be, make it almost a
miracle that he survived. He was first nearly burned to death in the
cradle by a nurse falling asleep over a novel and the candle dropping on
the coverlet; this left permanent marks on his arms and face. He was
next dropped into the sea by another bonne, who was climbing up a ship’s
side to see her lover. He was nearly poisoned, and nearly choked, and,
to crown all, he tried to hang himself, without any thought of suicide,
in imitation of a print exhibiting a man in that position of final
ignominy. The prediction of a charlatan founded on his horoscope has
been preserved: “Cet enfant deviendra un homme célébre, mais sa vie sera
des plus laborieuses, des plus tourmentées, et toujours livrée a la
contradiction.” [“This child will become a celebrity, but his life will
be harder, will be tormented, and always a contradiction.”]
View artworks’ titles of oil painting old master Delacroix Eugene France
1798-1863
0 Apollo Slays Python
0 Apollo Vanquishing the Python
0 Decoration of the west wall
0 Heliodoros Driven from the Temple
0 The Death of Sardanapalus
0 The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople
0 The Execution Doge Marino Faliero
0 The Fanatics of Tangier French oil painting reproduction
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0 The Massacre at Chios
0 The Sultan of Morocco and his Entourage
3 Apollo Slays Python sketch
3 Study for the war coffer
3 Study of Sky Setting Sun
4 A Mad Woman
4 A Mortally WOunded Brigand Quenches His Thirst
4 A Vase of Flowers on a Console French oil painting reproduction
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4 A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother |
