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

   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.

   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

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

Studies of a Goat

   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 (?).

   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

   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"

   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"