Eugène Delacroix

Toperfect Art supplies Delacroix biography and painting knowledge, this is useful for painters and art fans.

Our art gallery not only supply high-quality Eugène Delacroix oil painting reproduction for sale, but also sell romantic oil paintings classic.

The famous artists in our art company are good at on canvas Delacroix paintings reproductions and other beautiful painting wholesale.

Eugène Delacroix Paintings and Biography

Eugène Delacroix Paintings

Oil Painting Supplies of 350 Famous Painters * Oil Painting Supplies of 130 Styles

Knowledge: Oil Painting * Acrylic Painting * Watercolor Painting * Gouache Painting * Traditional Chinese Painting
Pastel Painting * Charcoal Drawing * Pencil Sketch * Wax Crayon Painting

Toperfect supply oil painting masterpiece reproductions of the old
master Eugène Delacroix, you are welcome to send us your own pictures to copy as museum quality oil painting on canvas.

本站文案版权所有, 并保留撰写草稿，侵权盗用者必被诉诸法律。
The copyright of scripts in this website is owned by Toperfect. Toperfect reserves the manual scripts of original version. Toperfect will take appropriate legal action in the piracy and infringements of copyright.

Eugène Delacroix Biography

French Romantic painter, lithographer, muralist, author, pastellist & draftsman
born 26 April 1798 - died 13 August 1863

Also known as: Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix.

Student of: Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774-1833).
Teacher of: Léon Bonnat (1833-1922), Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898).
Friend of: Léon Cogniet (1794-1880), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), Newton Fielding (1797-1856).
Patronized by: Duchesse de Berry Caroline (1798-1870).
Rival of: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), Ary Scheffer (1795-1858)

DELACROIX, FERDINAND VICTOR EUGENE (1798-1863), French historical painter, leader of the Romantic movement, was born at Charenton-St-Maurice, near Paris, on the 26th of April 1798. His father Charles Delacroix (1741—1805) was a partisan of the most violent faction during the time of the Revolution, and was foreign minister under the Directory. The Eugène Delacroix family affairs seem to have been conducted in the wildest manner, and the accidents that befell the child, well authenticated as they are said to be, make it almost a miracle that Eugène Delacroix survived. He was first nearly burned to death in the cradle by a nurse falling asleep over a novel and the candle dropping on the coverlet; this left permanent marks on his arms and face. He was next dropped into the sea by another bonne, who was climbing up a ship’s side to see her lover. He was nearly poisoned, and nearly choked, and, to crown all, Eugène Delacroix tried to hang himself, without any thought of suicide, in imitation of a print exhibiting a man in that position of final ignominy. The prediction of a charlatan founded on his horoscope has been preserved: “Cet enfant deviendra un homme célébre, mais sa vie sera des plus laborieuses, des plus tourmentées, et toujours livrée a la contradiction.”

Delacroix the elder (also known as Delacroix de Contaut) died at Bordeaux when Eugene was seven years of age, and his mother returned to Paris and placed him in the Lycée Napoleon. Afterwards, on his determining to be a painter, Eugène Delacroix entered the atelier of Baron Guérin, who affected to treat him as an amateur. His fellow-pupil was Ary Scheffer, who was alike by temperament and antecedents the opposite of the bizarre Delacroix, and the two remained antagonistic to the end of life. Acknowledged power of Eugène Delacroix and yet want of success with artists and critics — Thiers being his only advocate — perhaps mainly resulted from his bravura and rude dash in the use of the brush, at a time when smooth roundness of surface was general. His first important picture, Dante and Virgil, was painted in his own studio; and when Guérin went to see it he flew into a passion, and told him his picture was absurd, detestable, exaggerated.

“Why ask me to come and see this? you knew what I must say.” Yet Eugène Delacroix painting was received at the Salon, and produced an enthusiasm of debate (1822). Some said Géricault had worked on it, but all treated it with respect. Still in private his position, even after the larger tragic picture, the Massacre of Chios, had been deposited in the Luxembourg by the government (1824), became that of an Ishmaelite. The war for the freedom of Greece then going on moved him deeply, and his next two pictures — Marino Faliero Decapitated on the Giant’s Staircase of the Ducal Palace (which has always remained a European success), and Greece Lamenting on the Ruins of Missolonghi — with many smaller Eugène Delacroix paintings, were exhibited for the benefit of the patriots in 1826.

This exhibition was much visited by the public, and next year he produced another of important Eugène Delacroix paintings, Sardanapalus, from Byron’s drama. After this, he says, “I became the abomination of painting, I was refused water and salt,” — but, Eugène Delacroix adds with singularly happy naïveté, “J’étais enchanté de moi-même!” [“I was delighted with myself!”] The patrimony he inherited, or perhaps it should be said, what remained of it, was 10,000 livres de rente, and with economy he lived on this, and continued the expensive process of painting large historical pictures. In 1831 Eugène Delacroix reappeared in, the Salon with six Eugène Delacroix paintings, and immediately after left for Morocco, where he found much congenial matter. Delacroix never went to Italy; he refused to go on principle, lest the old masters, either in spirit or manner, should impair his originality and self-dependence. His greatest admiration in literature was the poetry of Byron; Shakespeare also attracted him for tragic inspirations; and of course classic subjects had their turn of his easel.

He continued Eugène Delacroix painting indefatigably, having his pictures very seldom favorably received at the Salon. These were sometimes very large, full of incidents, with many figures. Drawing of Lots in the Boat at Sea, from Byron’s Don Juan, and the Taking of Constantinople by the Christians were of that character, and the former was one of his noblest creations.

In 1845 he was employed to decorate the library of the Luxembourg, that of the chamber of deputies in 1847, the ceiling of the gallery of Apollo in the Louvre in 1849 and that of the Salon de la Paix in the hotel de ville in 1853. Eugène Delacroix died on the 13th of August 1863, and in August 1864 an exhibition of his works was opened on the Boulevard des Italiens. It contained 174 pictures, many of them of large dimensions, and 303 drawings, showing immense perseverance as well as energy and versatility. As a colourist, and a romantic painter, Eugène Delacroix now ranks among the greatest of French artists.

List of Eugène Delacroix Paintings

Toperfect supply oil painting masterpiece reproductions of the old master as below, you are welcome to send us your own picture to copy.
Specially for individual customers and collectors, you're suggested to own a Museum Collection by famous artists for such oil painting classic.
Buy art oil painting masterpiece by Eugène Delacroix