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Arabian Horses Fighting in a Stable Painting ID:: 10816
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Eugene Delacroix Arabian Horses Fighting in a Stable 1860, 2' 1 1/2" x 2' 8" (64.5 x 81 cm), Bequest of Count Isaac de Camondo, 1911. Deposit from the Louvre.
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Charenton Saint Maurice Painting ID:: 10812
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Eugene Delacroix Charenton Saint Maurice 1798, Paris. 1863 Lion Hunt, Sketch, 1854. 2' 9 3/4" x 3' 9 1/4" ( 86 115 cm).
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Tiger Hung Painting ID:: 10813
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Eugene Delacroix Tiger Hung 1854, 1' 11 1/2" x 2' 4 3/4" (60x73 cm). Bequest of Count Isaac de Camondo, 1911. Deposit from the Louvre.
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Cleopatra and the Peasant Painting ID:: 10814
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Eugene Delacroix Cleopatra and the Peasant 1838 Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina
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Fording a Stream in Morocco Painting ID:: 10817
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Eugene Delacroix Fording a Stream in Morocco 1' 11 1/2" x 2' 4 3/4" (60x73 cm). 1858, Bequest of Count Issa de Camondo.
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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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