Eugène Delacroix

Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene

French, 1798 - 1863

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French painter (1798–1863)

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Eugène Delacroix · 1900 · facsimile with original japanese tissue cover sheet ·  Accession ID  2001.136.20

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Hamlet

Eugène Delacroix · published 1864 · portfolio with 16 lithographs, text, and cover ·  Accession ID  1980.45.400-415

Set in a valley carpeted in sage green, about a dozen armed men, on foot and horseback, close to us, line up and face off against an attack advancing from the back left in this vertical painting. The men, clothing, and horses closest to us are painted with dashes and swirling brushstrokes, which contrasts with the soft look of the approaching crowd and landscape beyond, which are painted indistinctly with loose and blended brushstrokes. All the men we can see have medium brown skin and are armed with rifles. The men close to us wear long tunics and boots in shades of teal blue, ivory white, crimson red, earth brown, and golden yellow. Most of them wear turbans and some have straight or curved daggers hanging from their waists. Closest to us in the bottom left, a chestnut-brown horse with a black mane collapses on its rider, who sprawls along the ground with arms overhead. The horse lifts its head and twists back toward us facing our left, so the white blazes down its nose are visible. Near the horse’s legs and along the left edge of the painting, a man wearing a mustard-yellow tunic kneels and leans his forehead against the barrel of his rifle, which he braces like a walking stick. His other hand rests on the hilt of his dagger at his waist. To our right of the fallen horse, six men line up along a low rise that angles to our right and into the distance, where it meets a grove of green trees. At the front of that group, near the lower center of the composition, a rider on a dark horse charges the approaching men. Those men emerge from a line of emerald-green trees and growth at the foot of a steep, rocky hill. These men are more loosely painted so details are difficult to make out, but several are backlit by white smoke, presumably from firing their rifles. The hill above is mottled with warm taupe, light gray, cinnamon-brown, and moss-green growth. Atop the hill and to our left, a walled building complex with thick, square towers faces a row of sheer cliffs that march in from the upper right to enclose the space. Their jagged faces are shadowed with cool tones of slate blue, pewter gray, and touches of rust red. An azure-blue sky, scattered with thin layers of steel-gray and white clouds, spans the top of the composition. Bright sunlight flows in from the upper right, illuminating the fallen horse and the men near it. Sunlight also warms the face of the terracotta building and the hill, as well as the peaks of the mountains on the right. The artist signed and dated the work in black in the lower center: “Eug. Delacroix 1863.”
Eugène Delacroix, Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains, 1863, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Fund, 1966.12.1

Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains

Eugène Delacroix · 1863 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1966.12.1

A crouching tiger to our left bares its fangs at a hissing snake wound around a tree to our right in this nearly square painting. Yellow eyes gleaming, the tiger stretches its front paws forward with ears pinned back, teeth bared, rump in the air, and its tail curling down near its back legs. The white fur of the tiger’s underbelly near the front legs glows in the sunlight. Light glints off the skin of the snake, which coils around the tree twice and flicks its forked tongue between gaping jaws. The grassy area around the tiger is painted in shades of gold, green, and mustard yellow. Behind the tiger, a sage-green plain stretches back on our left to rocky hills in the distance, with hints of blue sky and clouds beyond. The tree frames the scene on our right, its gnarled, split trunk extending off the top edge of the canvas and its roots reaching beyond the bottom edge, where the artist signed and dated the work: “Eug. Delacroix 1862.”
Eugène Delacroix, Tiger and Snake, 1862, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.30

Tiger and Snake

Eugène Delacroix · 1862 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.30

Eugène Delacroix, Tigre en arrêt, 1854, cliché-verre on wove paper, Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp, 1999.111.14

Tigre en arrêt

Eugène Delacroix · 1854 · cliché-verre on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1999.111.14

Eugène Delacroix, Arab Horseman at the Gallop, 1849, graphite on tracing paper, Bequest of William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee, 2019.45.12

Arab Horseman at the Gallop

Eugène Delacroix · 1849 · graphite on tracing paper ·  Accession ID  2019.45.12

Eugène Delacroix, Tiger Sleeping in the Desert (Tigre couché dans le désert), 1846, printed c. 1870, etching on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1950.16.49

Tiger Sleeping in the Desert (Tigre couché dans le désert)

Eugène Delacroix · 1846, printed c. 1870 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1950.16.49

Eugène Delacroix, Tiger Sleeping in the Desert, 1846, printed c. 1870, etching on wove paper, Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp, 1999.111.13

Tiger Sleeping in the Desert

Eugène Delacroix · 1846, printed c. 1870 · etching on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1999.111.13

Eugène Delacroix, A False Scalping Performed by Iowa Tribe Members in Paris, 1845, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Bequest of William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee, 2019.45.11

A False Scalping Performed by Iowa Tribe Members in Paris

Eugène Delacroix · 1845 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2019.45.11

Eugène Delacroix, Lion Devorant un Cheval (Lion Devouring a Horse), 1844, lithograph on wove paper, Gift of Jacob Kainen, 2002.98.16

Lion Devorant un Cheval (Lion Devouring a Horse)

Eugène Delacroix · 1844 · lithograph on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2002.98.16

Bibliography

1865

  • Piron, Achille. Eugène Delacroix, sa vie et ses oeuvres. Paris, 1865.

1869

  • Baudelaire, Charles. "L'Oeuvre et la vie d'Eugène Delacroix." Published as L'Art romantique. Paris, 1869. In Charles Baudelaire, Oeuvres complètes, Paris, 1968: 1114-1141.

1878

  • Burty, Philippe. Lettres de Eugène Delacroix. Paris, 1878.

1885

  • Robaut 1885.

1908

  • Delteil, 1908 (Ingres et Delacroix).

1929

  • Escholier, Raymond. Delacroix, peintre, graveur, écrivain. 3 vols. Paris, 1929.

1932

  • Delacroix, Eugène. Journal de Eugène Delacroix. Edited by André Joubin. 3 vols. Paris, 1932.

1935

  • Joubin, André, ed. Correspondance générale d'Eugène Delacroix. 5 vols. Paris, 1935-1938.

1954

  • Dupont, Alfred, ed. Eugène Delacroix, lettres intimes. Paris, 1954.

1963

  • Serullaz, Maurice. Les Peintures murales de Delacroix. Paris, 1963.

1981

  • Johnson, Lee. The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix. 6 vols. Oxford, 1981-1989.

1984

  • Serullaz, Maurice, et al. Inventaire général des dessins, école française: Dessins d'Eugène Delacroix. Paris, 1984.

1991

  • Johnson, Lee, ed. Eugène Delacroix: Further Correspondence, 1817-1863. Oxford, 1991.

1995

  • Johnson, Lee. Delacroix Pastels. London, 1995.

2000

  • Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 218-220.