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Eugène Delacroix Artworks collected in Metmuseum

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Eugène Delacroix Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( DEL-ə-krwah, -⁠KRWAH, French: [øʒɛn dəlakʁwa]; 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 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix

Studies of Horses

French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris / The Met

   title: Studies of Horses
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1961

Study for an allegorical figure of Justice in the ceiling decoration of the Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon; verso: studies of allegorical figures, and architectural sketches.

French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris / The Met

   title: Study for an allegorical figure of Justice in the ceiling decoration of the Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon; verso: studies of allegorical figures, and architectural sketches.
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1916

Studies of Animals

French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris / The Met

   title: Studies of Animals
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1948

Studies of a Goat

French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris / The Met

   title: Studies of a Goat
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1925

Sheet of figure studies: two studies of a reclining figure, and a seated figure holding a lyre (?).

French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris / The Met

   title: Sheet of figure studies: two studies of a reclining figure, and a seated figure holding a lyre (?).
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1959

Sketchbook with views of Tours, France and its environs

French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris / The Met

   title: Sketchbook with views of Tours, France and its environs
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1969

Studies of a Damned Man, for "The Barque of Dante"

French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris / The Met

   title: Studies of a Damned Man, for "The Barque of Dante"
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1961

Study for "The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage"

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Jost Amman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jost_Amman Marcus Curtius    title: Marcus Curtius    department: Drawings and Prints    accessionYear: 2002 Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570    title: Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570    department: Drawings and Prints    accessionYear: 1953 Triumph of Christian Faith    ti
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Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively
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Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu (Japanese: 奥村 政信; 1686 – 13 March 1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijin-ga ("pictures of beautiful women"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okumura_Masanobu Yaoya O Shichi Standing, Holding a Love Letter and a Battledo
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