Eugène Delacroix Prints
1798–1863 · French · Romanticism
Wall art by Eugène Delacroix, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
16 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix was born in April 1798 at Charenton-Saint-Maurice outside Paris and entered the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin in 1815, where he trained in the Neoclassical manner he would spend his life pulling apart. The Barque of Dante, accepted by the Salon of 1822, announced him; The Massacre at Chios in 1824 and The Death of Sardanapalus in 1827 made him the leader of French Romantic painting, and Liberty Leading the People, painted in the autumn of 1830 after the July Revolution and now in the Louvre, became its emblem. A diplomatic journey to Morocco in 1832 filled his notebooks with the light, costume and animals he drew on for decades. From 1833 he was occupied with great decorative schemes, the salon and library of the Palais Bourbon, the library of the Luxembourg, the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, and finally the Chapel of the Angels at Saint-Sulpice, finished in 1861. He died in Paris in August 1863. Delacroix built pictures from colour laid against colour rather than from outline, and the Impressionists, Cézanne and Van Gogh all studied him for it. His canvases carry that energy on a wall: movement, heat and a sense of the brush still wet.