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  1. Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (/ ˈ d ɛ l ə k r w ɑː, ˌ d ɛ l ə ˈ k r w ɑː / DEL-ə-krwah, -⁠ KRWAH, French: [øʒɛn dəlakʁwa]; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.

  2. Summary of Eugène Delacroix. Delacroix is widely regarded as the leader of the Romantic movement in 19 th -century French art. His life and work embodied the movement's concern for emotion, exoticism, and the sublime, and his painting style - full of lush, agitated brushwork and pulsating with vivid color - was in direct contrast to the cool ...

    • French
    • April 26, 1798
    • Charenton Saint Maurice, Paris, France
    • August 24, 1863
  3. 1798 - 1863. Delacroix was the leading exponent of Romanticism in French painting. He was trained by the Neo-classical painter Pierre Guérin, from 1816 to about 1823. Guérin also taught Géricault.

  4. Apr 2, 2014 · Eugène Delacroix was born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France, on April 26, 1798. He received his artistic training in Paris and became known as a leading figure of the French Romantic era of...

  5. Eugène Delacroix was born in 1798, the son of Charles Delacroix who had served briefly as minister of foreign affairs under the Directory and who was on a mission to Holland, as the ambassador of the French Republic, at the time of his son's birth. His mother, Victoire Oeben, was descended from a family of artisans and craftsmen.

  6. Eugène Delacroix was one of the giants of French painting, but his last full retrospective exhibition in Paris dates back to 1963, the centenary year of his death.

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  8. Nine museums and six private collections have lent to this presentation, which, given the riches of North American holdings, provides a remarkably complete survey of Delacroix's achievement as a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.