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    Eugène Delacroix was a leading French Romantic painter of the 19th century known for works like "Liberty Leading the People" and "The Death of Sardanapalus." He received his artistic training in Paris and was inspired by history, literature, and exotic locales. Delacroix had early success at the Paris Salon and was hailed as a central figure of the Romantic era alongside other painters like Géricault and Gros. Throughout his career, he continued to impress critics with works depicting dramatic subjects through bold colors and brushwork, while also traveling to North Africa for new inspirations.

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    Eugène Delacroix was a leading French Romantic painter of the 19th century known for works like "Liberty Leading the People" and "The Death of Sardanapalus." He received his artistic training in Paris and was inspired by history, literature, and exotic locales. Delacroix had early success at the Paris Salon and was hailed as a central figure of the Romantic era alongside other painters like Géricault and Gros. Throughout his career, he continued to impress critics with works depicting dramatic subjects through bold colors and brushwork, while also traveling to North Africa for new inspirations.

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    Eugène Delacroix was a leading French Romantic painter of the 19th century known for works like "Liberty Leading the People" and "The Death of Sardanapalus." He received his artistic training in Paris and was inspired by history, literature, and exotic locales. Delacroix had early success at the Paris Salon and was hailed as a central figure of the Romantic era alongside other painters like Géricault and Gros. Throughout his career, he continued to impress critics with works depicting dramatic subjects through bold colors and brushwork, while also traveling to North Africa for new inspirations.

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    Eugène Delacroix

    Painter Eugène Delacroix was one of the leading artists of the


    French Romantic period of the 19th century.
    Synopsis

    Eugène Delacroix was born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France, on April 26, 1798. He


    received his artistic training in Paris and became known as a leading figure of the French
    Romantic era of the 19th century. Inspired by history, literature and exotic locales,
    Delacroix painted such famous works as "Liberty Leading the People" and "The Death of
    Sardanapalus." He died in Paris on August 13, 1863.

    Early Years and Education

    Ferdinand-Eugène-Victor Delacroix was born on April 26, 1798, in Charenton-Saint-


    Maurice, France. His father, Charles, was a minister of foreign affairs and served as a
    governmental prefect in Marseilles and Bordeaux. His mother, Victoire Oeben, was a
    cultured woman who encouraged young Delacroix’s love of literature and art.

    Delacroix’s father died when he was 7 years old, and his mother passed away when he was
    16. He attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris but left school to begin his artistic
    studies. Sponsored by a helpful and well-connected uncle, he joined the studio of the
    painter Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. In 1816, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts. Delacroix
    also made many visits to the Louvre, where he admired the paintings of such Old Masters
    as Titian and Rubens.

    Early Public Recognition

    Many of Delacroix’s early paintings had religious subjects. However, the first work he
    exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon, “Dante and Virgil in Hell” (1822), took its
    inspiration from literature.

    For other works of the 1820s, Delacroix turned to recent historical events. His interest in
    the Greek War of Independence, and his distress at the atrocities of that war, led to “The
    Massacre at Chios” (1824) and “Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi” (1826).

    Even at this early stage of his career, Delacroix was fortunate enough to find buyers for his
    work. He was hailed as a central figure in the Romantic era of French art, along with
    Théodore Géricault and Antoine-Jean Gros. Like these other painters, he portrayed subjects
    fraught with extreme emotion, dramatic conflicts and violence. Often inspired by history,
    literature and music, he worked with bold colors and free brushwork.

    Major Works of Romanticism

    Delacroix continued to impress the critics and his clients with works such
    as “Death of Sardanapalus” (1827), a decadent scene of a defeated
    Assyrian king preparing to commit suicide. One of his most famous
    paintings was “Liberty Leading the People,” a response to the July
    Revolution of 1830, in which a woman holding a French flag leads a band
    of fighters from all social classes. It was purchased by the French
    government in 1831.

    After traveling to Morocco in 1832, Delacroix returned to Paris with new


    ideas for his art. Paintings such as “The Women of Algiers in Their
    Apartment” (1834) and “Moroccan Chieftain Receiving Tribute” (1837)
    defined his Romantic interest in exotic subjects and faraway lands. He
    also continued to paint scenes borrowed from the work of his favorite
    authors, including Lord Byron and Shakespeare, and he was
    commissioned to paint several rooms at the Palais Bourbon and the
    Palace of Versailles.
    Eugène Delacroix
    Later Life and Works

    From the 1840s onward, Delacroix spent more time in the countryside
    outside Paris. He enjoyed friendships with other well-known cultural
    figures such as the composer Frédéric Chopin and the author George
    Sand. In addition to his literary subjects, he produced flower still lifes and
    multiple paintings titled “The Lion Hunt.”
    Delacroix’s last major commission was a set of murals for the Church of
    Saint-Sulpice in Paris. They include “Jacob Wrestling with the Angel,” a
    scene of intense physical combat between two figures in a dark forest.
    This commission occupied Delacroix throughout the 1850s and into the
    following decade. He died on August 13, 1863, in Paris.

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