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Eugène Delacroix · 19e siècle
Eugène Delacroix: 1798–1863
Other names (4)
Delacroix, Eugene Delacroix, Ferdinand-Eugene-Victor Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
Biography
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( DEL-ə-krwah, -KRWAH; French: [øʒɛn dəlakʁwa]; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime" of nature in often violent action.
However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible." Together with Ingres, Delacroix is considered one of the last old Masters of painting and is one of the few who was ever photographed.
As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott, and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Eugène Delacroix. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art130 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago103 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon103 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre57 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art56 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art38 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Dijon16 recorded works
- musée Lansyer — Loches14 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art12 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Vannes11 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly8 recorded works
- musée Fabre — Montpellier8 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux5 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille5 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Rouen5 recorded works
- musée Grobet-Labadié — Marseille5 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris4 recorded works
- Musée d’Orsay4 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)4 recorded works
- Les Pêcheries, musée de Fécamp — Fécamp3 recorded works
- Musée Marmottan Monet3 recorded works
- National Gallery3 recorded works
- MuMa - Musée d’art moderne André Malraux2 recorded works
- musée de la Chartreuse — Douai2 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen2 recorded works
- musée Greuze - hôtel-Dieu — Tournus2 recorded works
- Nationalmuseum2 recorded works
- Kröller-Müller Museum1 recorded work
- Le Carroi, musée d'arts et d'histoire — Chinon1 recorded work
- Musée Carnavalet1 recorded work
- musée d'art et d'histoire — Langres1 recorded work
- musée d'Art et d'Histoire — Lisieux1 recorded work
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- musée de la vie romantique — Paris1 recorded work
- musée de Melun — Melun1 recorded work
- musée des Augustins — Toulouse1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Béziers1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Tours1 recorded work
- Musée Fabre1 recorded work
- musée Malraux — Le Havre1 recorded work
- musée national Magnin — Dijon1 recorded work
- Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest1 recorded work
- Museum Ordrupgaard1 recorded work
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts1 recorded work
- Sinebrychoff Art Museum1 recorded work
- Walters Art Museum1 recorded work
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- National Gallery of Art
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- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- musée des beaux-arts — Rouen
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- musée d'Orsay — Paris
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
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