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Eugène DelacroixJeune Tigre jouant avec sa mère (Young Tiger playing with its mother)1831
1831
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Lithograph on on white wove paper, 4 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (112 x 187 mm), wide margins. First state (of 6). A very good impression with minor scattered spots of very light discoloration.
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At an early age Delacroix became a lover of music and literature and had been drawing from the time he entered school. He expected painting would be a hobby, but on the death of his father he found he had to make his own way in life. In 1817 he entered the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guerin; amongst his fellow pupils was Gericault. His first exhibited work was Dante and Virgil in 1822 in the Salon.
His success in 1822 having brought him fame, Delacroix for a time led a busy social life. He was a friend of Richard Parkes Bonington, who frequented the studio of Gros, and he became acquainted with Thales Fielding. Tradition has it that after seeing one of Constable's landscapes at a Parisian art dealer's, in the four days remaining before the opening of the Salon, Delacroix re-painted the entire background landscape of his picture, introducing half-tones, broken color and glazes, which gave his canvas its incomparable brilliance. Like a quintessential modern artist, he revisited themes he had painted decades before, turning out more thoughtful interpretations of the same subjects. In technique and color, he was a visionary. He used unmixed pigments more boldly and freely than any artist before him, and in ways that directly inspired painters from Manet and Renoir to Matisse and Picasso.
Compared with other artists, his travels were offbeat. He made no pilgrimage to Greece or Rome; instead he went to England, where he fell under the spell of the landscapists, notably Constable. In 1831 he visited Spain, Morocco and Algiers; several important works were a result of this journey. In 1832, through influence of Thiers, received his first public commission. From 1832 to 1855 he executed decorative works for the Chamber of Deputies, Library of Luxembourg, Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, Salon de la Paix in the Hotel de Ville, and church of St. Sulpice. Delacroix was elected to the Academy in 1857 and last exhibited at the Salon in 1859. He died in Paris in 1863.
[Schatz, Jean Ershler, Phaidon Encyclopedia of Art and Artists, 1978, Phaidon Press,UK, as presented on AskArt (Eugene Delacroix).]
- Creator:Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863, French)
- Creation Year:1831
- Dimensions:Height: 4.5 in (11.43 cm)Width: 7.38 in (18.75 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Middletown, NY
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Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (French: 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action. However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible."Together with Ingres, Delacroix is considered one of the last old Masters of painting and is one of the few who was ever photographed. As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott, and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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