(b Charenton-Saint-Maurice,
nr Paris, 26 April 1798; d Paris, 13 Aug 1863).
French painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was one of the greatest
painters of the first half of the 19th century, the last history painter
in Europe and the embodiment of ROMANTICISM in the visual arts. At the
heart of Delacroix’s career is the paradox between the revolutionary and
the conventional: as the arch-enemy of JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES and
as the leading figure of the French Romantic movement, he was celebrated
for undermining the tradition of painting established by JACQUES-LOUIS
DAVID, yet he nevertheless enjoyed official patronage from the beginning
of the Restoration (1814–30) until the Second Empire (1852–70).
Self-Portrait as Ravenswood
Frederic Chopin
1838
Oil on canvas, 45,7 x 37,5 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
George Sand
1838
Oil on canvas, 79 x 57 cm
Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Ordrupgaard
Decoration of the west wall
1833-37
Oil and virgin wax on plaster
Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon, Paris
Justice (detail)
1833-37
Oil and virgin wax on plaster
Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon, Paris
Justice (detail)
1833-37
Oil and virgin wax on plaster
Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon, Paris
War
1833-37
Oil and virgin wax on plaster, 140 x 380 cm
Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon, Paris
The Garonne
1833-37
Oil and virgin wax on plaster, 300 x 110 cm
Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon, Paris
The Mediterranean
1833-37
Oil and virgin wax on plaster, 300 x 122 cm
Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon, Paris
The Women of Algiers
1834
Oil on canvas, 180 x 229 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
