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Eugene Delacroix
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| 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 | ||||
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Dante and Virgil (Corssing the Lake That Surrounds the Infernal City) also called the Barque of Dante (mk05) new6/Eugene Delacroix-535892.jpg Painting ID:: 20907 Visit European Gallery |
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) | ||
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