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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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Self Portrait _6
Painting ID:: 925
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1837
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Liberty Leading the People
Painting ID:: 926
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1830
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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The Battle of Taillebourg
Painting ID:: 927
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1835/37
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Christ on the Lake of Gennesaret
Painting ID:: 928
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Justice
Painting ID:: 929
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1833-37
Salon du Roi, Palaais Bourbon, Paris
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