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Eugène DelacroixÉtude Pour Une Chasse au LionCirca 1860
Circa 1860
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Étude pour une chasse au lion by Eugene Delacroix (1789-1863)
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Eugene Delacroix was a famous French Romantic painter whose career is seen to this day as imperative in the shaping of the French Romantic school. He studied at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand and Lycee Pierre Corneille. He was inspired by Baroque painters like Peter Paul Rubens, incorporating the extravagance of early Flemish painting into his work. He was often seen as in direct opposition to the established French Neoclassical school which included artists like Ingres and David. Nevertheless, Delacroix maintained his career as an artist through history paintings and later political paintings such as "Liberty Leading the People." He helped found the famous art school Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
This sketch of a lion is well indicative of his loose, Romantic style. The subject matter he chose is well representative of his interest in North Africa after his travels to Morocco in 1832. He became fascinated with what he deemed as "primitive" cultures and allowed these travels to heavily inform his practice for the rest of his career. The lion, an animal not native to France, was either drawn from life while on this trip or back in France from a reference book. In either case, the animal semiotically serves as a symbol of the colonized, non-European countries Delacroix took primary interest in.
- Creator:Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863, French)
- Creation Year:Circa 1860
- Dimensions:Height: 5.35 in (13.59 cm)Width: 10.71 in (27.21 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1637210319592
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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