Eugène Delacroix
French Artist · 1798–1863
7 works on LinkedCulture
Poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire described his hero Eugène Delacroix as "a volcanic crater artistically concealed beneath bouquets of flowers." Beneath the surface of Delacroix's polished elegance and charm roiled turbulent interior emotions. In 1822 Delacroix took the Salon by storm. Although the French artistic establishment considered him a wild man and a rebel, the French government, bou
Works
View as IIIF ↗Allegory of Abundance
Getty Museum · 1820s
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Episode from "The Corsair" by Lord Byron
Getty Museum · about 1831
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Marguerite in the church with studies of the head of Mephistopheles
Getty Museum · 1826–1827
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Moroccan Horseman Crossing a Ford
Getty Museum · about 1850
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The Death of Lara
Getty Museum · about 1824
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The Education of Achilles
Getty Museum · 1862
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Tigre en Arrêt
Getty Museum · plate 1854; print 1921
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