Orphan Girl at the Cemetery
1824 · Oil on canvas · Musée du Louvre, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
- Year
- 1824
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 65.5 × 54.3 cm
- Collection
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Movement
- Romanticism
A young girl in a loose grey dress that has slipped from one shoulder sits among graves and looks up and to the left, her eyes wet, her lips parted, one hand resting weakly on her thigh. Nothing explains her grief; the dim sky and the deserted burial ground carry it. Delacroix painted the picture in 1824, the year of his Massacre at Chios, and showed it at the Salon that year simply as a study. It is usually thought to be a preparatory work connected with the larger painting, but it stands entirely on its own and is one of the most direct images of feeling in French Romanticism. Delacroix gave it to his friend Frédéric Leblond. The collector Étienne Moreau-Nélaton bought it in 1904 and gave it to the Louvre in 1906, with the condition that it never be lent.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A grieving girl in grey among graves under a dim sky, direct and tender, for a study, reading corner or quiet bedroom at 16×24 in black. A warm grey, sage or charcoal wall; hang it at eye level, not above furniture.
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Romanticism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1824)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- living room, dining room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
