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Eugene Delacroix
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Liberty Leading the People (mk05)
Painting ID:: 20940
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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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Liberty Leading the People (mk05) |
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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) |
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Related Paintings::.
| Blessing Christ and Praying Virgin | Sheep 120 | Jupiter Among the Corybantes (Korybantes), Kimbell Art Museum | |
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