Eugene Delacroix Dante and Virgil (Corssing the Lake That Surrounds the Infernal City) also called the Barque of Dante (mk05) Painting ID:: 20907 new6/Eugene Delacroix-535892.jpg
Dante and Virgil (Corssing the Lake That Surrounds the Infernal City) also called the Barque of Dante (mk05) 1822
Canvas 74 1/2 x 95 1/4''(189 x 242 cm)Scene from Dante's Jnferno Canto VIII.Acquired at the Salon of 1822
INV 3820 (G/AR)
Eugene Delacroix Still Life with a Lobster and Trophies of Hunting and Fishing (mk05) Painting ID:: 20909 new6/Eugene Delacroix-228737.jpg
Still Life with a Lobster and Trophies of Hunting and Fishing (mk05) Canvas 32 x 42 1/4''(81 x 107 cm)Salon of 1827-1828;given in 1906 R.F 1661 (G/AR)
Eugene Delacroix Scenes of the Massacres of Scio;Greek Families Awaiting Death or Slavery (mk05) Painting ID:: 20910 new6/Eugene Delacroix-868335.jpg
Scenes of the Massacres of Scio;Greek Families Awaiting Death or Slavery (mk05) Canvas 165 x 139 1/4''(419 x 354 cm)Episode from the Greek War of Independence (1822).Acquired at the Salon of 1824 INV 3823(G/AR)
Frederic Chopin (mk05) Canvas 18 x 15''(46 x 38 cm)Fragment of a double portrait with George Sand;the other part of the Picture is in the Ordrupgaard,Copenhagen;bequeathed in 1907 R.F 1717(G/AR)
Eugene Delacroix The Death of Ophelia (mk05) Painting ID:: 20912 new6/Eugene Delacroix-897466.jpg
The Death of Ophelia (mk05) Canvas 9 x 12 1/4''(23 x 31 cm)Scene from Shakespeare,Hamlet,Act IV Bequeathed in 1902 R.F 1393(G/AR)
Odalisque (mk05) Canvas 10 1/4 x 13''(26 x 33 cm)Bequeathed in 1906 R.F 1657(G/AR)
Eugene Delacroix Rebecca Abducted by the Templar (mk05) Painting ID:: 20914 new6/Eugene Delacroix-543877.jpg
Rebecca Abducted by the Templar (mk05) 1858
Canvas 41 1/4 x 32 1/4''(105 x 82 cm)Scene from Walter Scott,Ivanhoe,Chapter XXIX.Salon of 1859;bequeathed in 1902.R.F 1392(G/AR)
Eugene Delacroix Algerian Women in Their Appartments (mk05) Painting ID:: 20915 new6/Eugene Delacroix-225555.jpg
Algerian Women in Their Appartments (mk05) 1834
Canvas 71 x 90 1/4''(180 x 229 cm)Acquired at the Salon of 1834 INV 3824(S/AR)
Eugene Delacroix Portrait of the Artist (mk05) Painting ID:: 20916 new6/Eugene Delacroix-342345.jpg
Portrait of the Artist (mk05) Canvas 25 1/2 x 21 1/2''(65 x 55 cm)Bequeathed by Delacroix to Jenny Le Guillou,his housekeeper,on the condition of giving it to the Louvre after the return to power of the Orleans family;sent to the Louvre by the painter Andrieu in 1872 R.F 25 (G/AR)
Eugene Delacroix Death of Sardanapalus (mk05) Painting ID:: 20917 new6/Eugene Delacroix-833855.jpg
Death of Sardanapalus (mk05) Canvas 154 1/4 x 192 1/4''(392 x 496 cm)Salon of 1827-1828;acquired in 1921 R.F 2346(MN)
Eugene Delacroix The Shipwreck of Don Juan (mk05) Painting ID:: 20918 new6/Eugene Delacroix-343345.jpg
The Shipwreck of Don Juan (mk05) 1840
Canvas 53 1/4 x 77 1/4''(135 x 196 cm)Scene from Byron,Don Juan,Canto II Salon of 1841;given in 1883 R.F 259 (G/AR)
Eugene Delacroix Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople on 12 April 1204 (mk05) Painting ID:: 20919 new6/Eugene Delacroix-453929.jpg
Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople on 12 April 1204 (mk05) 1840
Canvas 162 x 195 1/2''(''(411 x 497 cm)Commissioned by Louis-Philippe in 1838 for the historic Galleries at Versailles.Entered the Louvre in 1885 INV 3821 (G/AR))
Eugene Delacroix The Sea at Dieppe (mk05) Painting ID:: 20920 new6/Eugene Delacroix-425589.jpg
The Sea at Dieppe (mk05) Card on wood 14 x 20''(35 x 51 cm)Painted from memory in 1852 Bequeathed in 1979 R.F 1979-46 (S/AR)
Pieta (mk05) Canvas 12 x 17''(30 x 43 cm)Sketch fro the mural painting in the Church of Saint-Denis de Saint-Sacrement,Paris Commissioned in 1840 and completed in 1844;given in 1942 R.F 1943-6(MN)
Eugene Delacroix Liberty Leading the People (mk05) Painting ID:: 20940 new6/Eugene Delacroix-396962.jpg
Liberty Leading the People (mk05) 1830
Canvas 102 1/4 x 128''(260 x 325 cm)Acquired at the Salon of 1831 but not exhibited until 1848 R.F 129 (MN)
Eugene Delacroix Orphan Girl at the Cemetery (mk09) Painting ID:: 21290 new6/Eugene Delacroix-543894.jpg
Orphan Girl at the Cemetery (mk09) 1823
Oil on canvas,66 x 54 cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
Eugene Delacroix The Bark of Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell) (mk09) Painting ID:: 21296 new6/Eugene Delacroix-245875.jpg
The Bark of Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell) (mk09) 1822
Oil on canvas,189 x 242 cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
The Lion Hunt (mk09) 1861
Oil on canvas,76.5 x 98.5 cm
Chicago(IL),The Art Institure of Chicago
Eugene Delacroix Women of Algiers (mk09) Painting ID:: 21334 new6/Eugene Delacroix-539279.jpg
Women of Algiers (mk09) 1834
Oil on cavnas ,180 x 229 cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
Eugene Delacroix The Massacre of Chios (mk09) Painting ID:: 21336 new6/Eugene Delacroix-757649.jpg
The Massacre of Chios (mk09) 1824
OIl on cavnas ,417 x 354 cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
Eugene Delacroix Liberty Leading the People(28 th July 1830) (mk09) Painting ID:: 21337 new6/Eugene Delacroix-639488.jpg
Liberty Leading the People(28 th July 1830) (mk09) 1830
OIl on canvas ,260 x 325 cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
Eugene Delacroix Dante and Virgil in Hell (mk10) Painting ID:: 21757 new6/Eugene Delacroix-354926.jpg
Dante and Virgil in Hell (mk10) 1822 oil on canvas,
189 x 241.5 cm
Paris,musee du Louvre
Eugene Delacroix Christ on the Cross (mk10) Painting ID:: 21819 new7/Eugene Delacroix-656833.jpg
Christ on the Cross (mk10) 1860,Oil on canvas
751 x 485 cm
Vannes,Musee des Beaux-Arts
Eugene Delacroix Dante and Virgil in Hel (The Barque of Dante) (mk22) Painting ID:: 22821 new7/Eugene Delacroix-395724.jpg
Dante and Virgil in Hel (The Barque of Dante) (mk22) 1822
Oil on canvas,189 x 246 cm
Paris,Musee du Louvre
Eugene Delacroix The Capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders,12 April 1204 Painting ID:: 39909 new12/Eugene Delacroix-776837.jpg
The Capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders,12 April 1204 mk155
1840
Oil on canvas
411x497cm
Eugene Delacroix Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement (mk32) Painting ID:: 25046 new8/Eugene Delacroix-324877.jpg
Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement (mk32) huile sur toile signee et datee 1834 180 x 229 cm Musee du Louvre Paris Un certain nombre d'artistes europeens pretendent avoir apercu comme Delacroix des femmes musulmanes dans leurs appartements du harem mais c'aurait ete violer un code social strict
Conversation mauresque (mk32) aquarelle signee 14 x 18 cm 1833 The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Cette seduisante Scene amoureuse faisait partie de l'album d'aquarelles donne par Delacroix au comte de Momary avec lequel il avait ovyage au Maroc en 1832
Eugene Delacroix La Mort de Sardanapale (mk32) Painting ID:: 25245 new8/Eugene Delacroix-749573.jpg
La Mort de Sardanapale (mk32) huile sur toile signee 392 x 496 cm 1827 Musee du Louvre,Paris
French Romantic Painter, 1798-1863
For 40 years Eugene Delacroix was one of the most prominent and controversial painters in France. Although the intense emotional expressiveness of his work placed the artist squarely in the midst of the general romantic outpouring of European art, he always remained an individual phenomenon and did not create a school. As a personality and as a painter, he was admired by the impressionists, postimpressionists, and symbolists who came after him.
Born on April 28, 1798, at Charenton-Saint-Maurice, the son of an important public official, Delacroix grew up in comfortable upper-middle-class circumstances in spite of the troubled times. He received a good classical education at the Lycee Imperial. He entered the studio of Pierre Narcisse Guerin in 1815, where he met Theodore Gericaul