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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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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
The Italian Poet Tasso in the Madhouse - Etching
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in Paris, IDF
Eugène DELACROIX (1798-1863)
Tasso in the Madhouse
Engraving after a drawing
Signed on the plate
On vellum 38 x 50 cm
INFORMATION: In 1839, Delacroix painted his famous painting "T...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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
The lover at the piano, a romantic drawing by Eugène Delacroix (c. 1843)
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in PARIS, FR
Graphite lead on paper
Dimensions: 6 x 8 ¼ in. (15.4 x 21 cm) – framed 11 ¼ x 12 5/8 in. (28.5 x 33.2 cm)
Studio sale stamp in the lower right corner (L. 838a)
A certificate from th...
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1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
A preparatory drawing by Eugène Delacroix on the back of one of his prints
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in PARIS, FR
Rapidly executed with the tip of a brush, this wash bordering on abstraction seduced us with its great spontaneity. This (unsigned) study is a first thought for a small licentious ca...
Category
1820s Romantic Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Surprise Etching by François Chifflart, Modern Style, 1860s, Unframed
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in Roma, IT
Surprise is a black and White etching realized by François Chifflart in the 1860s.
Titled in the lower.
Image size: 24x32.
Very good impression with wide margins and a very fresh...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
