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Why is Delacroix considered a Romantic painter?
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Delacroix is considered a Romantic painter due to the era in which he worked and his artistic style. From the outset of his career in the early 19th century, he was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school. In contrast to the neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on color and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modeled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity. Shop a collection of Eugène Delacroix art on 1stDibs.
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Jeune Tigre jouant avec sa mère (Young Tiger playing with its mother)
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in Middletown, NY
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...
Category
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Faust, Méphistophélès et le Barbet / Faust, Méphistophélès and the Water Spaniel
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in Middletown, NY
Lithograph on Chine appliqué, 9 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches (235 x 206 mm), full margins. First state (of 4). Extremely minor uniform age tone, otherwise in good condition. A superb, richly-inked impression.
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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...
Category
Early 19th Century Barbizon School Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Tigre couché à l'entrée de son antre (Tiger Lying at the Entrance to its Lair)
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching, drypoint, and roulette on watermarked Hallines cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches (95 x 148 mm), full margins. A very good impression of this charming image, with all of...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Women of Algiers (color), Modern Lithograph by Eugene Delacroix
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eugene Delacroix, French (1798 - 1863) - Women of Algiers (color), Year: 1838, Medium: Lithograph, Image Size: 6.25 x 8.75 inches, Size: 7.25 x 10.75 in. (18.42 x 27.31 cm), Publis...
Category
1830s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Tiger Sleeping in the Desert, Impressionist Etching by Eugene Delacroix
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eugene Delacroix, French (1798 - 1863) - Tiger Sleeping in the Desert, Year: 1846, Medium: Etching, signed in the plate, Image Size: 3 x 4.75 inches, Size: 12.5 x 17.75 in. (31.75 ...
Category
1840s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Un Forgeron - Etching by Eugène Delacroix - 1870s
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in Roma, IT
Un Forgeron is an artwork realized by Eugène Delacroix in the 1870s.
Etching.
Good conditions.
Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
