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    Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic painter born in 1798 near Paris. He showed early artistic talent and studied under neoclassical painter Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. His early works were influenced by Raphael and Rubens, but he became a leading painter of the new Romantic style. Throughout his career, he was protected by Talleyrand, a family friend and politician, who was likely his real father. Delacroix is renowned for his mastery of color and passion for drawing. He drew inspiration from literature and other artists but said music gave him the greatest emotion and inspiration for his paintings.

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    Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic painter born in 1798 near Paris. He showed early artistic talent and studied under neoclassical painter Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. His early works were influenced by Raphael and Rubens, but he became a leading painter of the new Romantic style. Throughout his career, he was protected by Talleyrand, a family friend and politician, who was likely his real father. Delacroix is renowned for his mastery of color and passion for drawing. He drew inspiration from literature and other artists but said music gave him the greatest emotion and inspiration for his paintings.

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    Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic painter born in 1798 near Paris. He showed early artistic talent and studied under neoclassical painter Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. His early works were influenced by Raphael and Rubens, but he became a leading painter of the new Romantic style. Throughout his career, he was protected by Talleyrand, a family friend and politician, who was likely his real father. Delacroix is renowned for his mastery of color and passion for drawing. He drew inspiration from literature and other artists but said music gave him the greatest emotion and inspiration for his paintings.

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    Ferdinand

    Victor
    Eugène
    Delacroix
    Early Life
    Ferdinand Victor Eugène
    Delacroix
    Eugène Delacroix was born on 26
    April 1798 at Charenton-Saint-
    Maurice in Île-de-France, near Paris.
    His mother was named Victoire
    Oeben, the daughter of the cabinet-
    maker Jean- François Oeben. He had
    three much older siblings. Charles-
    Henri Delacroix  (1779–1845) rose to
    the rank of General in the
    Napoleonic army. Henriette (1780–
    1827) married the diplomat Raymond
    de Verninac Saint-Maur (1762–1822).
    Henri was born six years later. He
    Ferdinand Victor Eugène
    Delacroix
    There are medical reasons to
    believe that Eugène’s legitimate
    father, Charles-François Delacroix, was not
    able to procreate at the time of Eugène's
    conception. Talleyrand, who was a
    friend of the family and successor of Charles
    Delacroix as Minister of Foreign
    Affairs, and whom the adult Eugène
    resembled in appearance and character,
    considered himself as his real
    father. Throughout his career as a painter, he
    was protected by Talleyrand, who served
    successively the Restoration and king Louis-
    Philippe, and ultimately as ambassador
    of France in Great Britain, and later by
    Talleyrand's grandson, Charles Auguste
    Ferdinand Victor Eugène
    Delacroix
    His early education was at the Lycée
    Louis-le-Grand, and at the Lycée Pierre
    Corneille in Rouen where he steeped
    himself in the classics and won awards for
    drawing. In 1815 he began his training
    with Pierre- Narcisse Guérin in
    the neoclassical style of Jacques-Louis
    David. An early church commission, The
    Virgin of the Harvest (1819),
    displays a Raphael-esque influence, but
    another such commission, The Virgin of
    the Sacred Heart (1821),
    evidences a freer interpretation. It
    precedes the influence of the more
    colourful and rich style of the Flemish
    Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, and
    Career
    Massacre at Chios
    Delacroix's painting of the
    massacre at
    Chios shows sick, dying Greek civilians
    about to be slaughtered by the Turks.
    One of several paintings he made of
    this contemporary event, expressed
    the official policy for the Greek cause
    in their war of
    independence against the Turks, war
    sustained by English, Russian and
    French governments.
    Delacroix was quickly recognized by
    the authorities as a leading painter in
    the new Romantic style, and the
    Legacy
    At the sale of his work in 1864, 9140 works were attributed
    to Delacroix, including 853 paintings, 1525 pastels and
    water colours, 6629 drawings, 109 lithographs,
    and over 60 sketch books. The number and quality of the
    drawings, whether done for constructive purposes
    or to capture a spontaneous movement, underscored his
    explanation, "Colour always occupies me, but drawing
    preoccupies me." Delacroix produced several fine self-
    portraits, and a number of memorable portraits which
    seem to have been done purely for pleasure, among which
    were the portrait of fellow artist Baron Schwiter, an inspired
    small oil of the violinist  Niccolò Paganini, and Portrait of
    Frédéric Chopin and George Sand, a double portrait of his
    friends, the composer Frédéric Chopin and writer George
    Sand; the painting was cut after his death, but the
    Musical Inspiration
    Delacroix drew inspiration from many sources
    over his career, such as the literary works of
    William Shakespeare and Lord Byron, or the artistry
    of Michelangelo. But from beginning to end of his
    life, he was in part characterized by a constant
    need for music, saying in 1855, "nothing can be
    compared with the emotion caused by music; that it
    expresses incomparable shades of feeling." He
    had said, while working at Saint Sulpice, that the
    music put him in a state of "exaltation" which
    inspired his painting. It was often in music, in the
    most melancholy renditions of Chopin, or the
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