Painting #058 - Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix 

(French Romantic, 1798–1863)

Self-portrait with Green Vest
- Eugène Delacroix in 1837
 - oil on canvas (65 x 54.5 cm)
- Louvre Museum (Paris)

The Massacre at Chios  

- Eugene Delacroix 

- oil on canvas (419 × 354 cm) 1824

- Louvre (Paris)

A military attack -- on the inhabitants of Chios Island by Ottoman forces in 1822 -- resulted in the deaths of 20,000 citizens, and the forced deportation into slavery of almost all the surviving 70,000 inhabitants. Dark smoke came from a burning village in the background. 

 

The Massacre at Chios

Chios island
was close to the Ottoman Empire,
and inhabited by Greeks.

Orphan Girl at the Cemetery  

- Delacroix 

- oil on canvas (65 × 54 cm) 1824

- Louvre (Paris)

Believed to be a preparatory work in oil for the artist's later Massacre at Chios, Orphan Girl at the Cemetery is nevertheless considered a masterpiece in its own right. 

The Death of Sardanapalus
- Eugène Delacroix
- oil on canvas
(392 × 496 cm) 1827 - Louvre (Paris)
& (74 × 82 cm) 1844 - Philadelphia Museum of Art

The king has his concubines and beloved horse killed, and himself killed in the burning palace, before the fall of his kingdom.

Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople
- Eugène Delacroix
- oil painting (498 × 410 cm) 1840
- Louvre (Paris)

Apollo Slays Python
- Eugene Delacroix
- oil on mounted canvas (800 x 750 cm) 1850-1851
- Louvre Museum (Paris)

Liberty Leading the People  

- Eugene Delacroix

- oil on canvas (260 × 325 cm) 1830

- Louvre (Paris)

It commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X (younger brother of Louis XVI and Louis XVIII), and established the constitutional monarchy (1830-1848) for his cousin Louis-Philippe (Duke of Orléans,)

     Note the use of the tricolor among the clothes, and the loss of shoes and trousers (to other poor).

Bust of Marianne

- Théodore Doriot

French Senate

A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the tricolor flag of the French Revolution in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. 

This figure of Liberty, known as Marianne, is viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic, an allegory of liberty and reason, and a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty.

July Revolution of 1830 

Liberty Leading the People

Statue de la Liberté, Paris

One other view of the July Revolution:

Prise de l'Hôtel de ville : le Pont d'Arcole
- Amédée Bourgeois (1798-1837, French)
- oil on canvas (145 x 195 cm) 1831
- Palace of Versailles (Paris)

The Barque of Dante
- Delacroix
- oil on canvas (189 × 246 cm) 1822
- Louvre (Paris)

Arab Saddling his Horse
- Delacroix
- oil on canvas (56 x 47 cm) 1855
- Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)

Sultan of Morocco
- Delacroix
- oil on canvas (377 x 340 cm) 1845
- Musée des Augustins de Toulouse (France)

Moulay Abd-er-Rahman, Sultan of Morocco, leaving his palace in Meknes, surrounded by his guard and his main officers.

Women of Algiers in their Apartment
- Delacroix
- oil on canvas (180 × 229cm) 1834
- Louvre (Paris)

From 1857 to 1861 Delacroix worked on frescoes for the Chapelle des Anges at the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris:

They included "Saint Michael Slaying the Dragon", and the following two, all stories from the Old Testimony:

(L) Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

- Delacroix

- fresco (714 x 485 cm) 1856-1861

- Church of Saint-Sulpice (Paris)

 

(R) Heliodorus Driven from the Temple

- Delacroix

- fresco (751 x 485 cm) 1854-1861

- Church of Saint-Sulpice (Paris)

The Portrait of Chopin & Sand

The Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand was an 1838 unfinished oil-on-canvas painting by Delacroix.

(L) Frédéric Chopin
- Delacroix

- oil on canvas (46 x 38 cm) 1838
- Louvre (Paris)

 

(R) George Sand
- Delacroix
- oil on canvas (79 x 57 cm) 1838
- Ordrupgaard (Copenhagen)

Source: Wikipedia

A 19th century cartoon depicting
Ingres with a pen versus
Delacroix with a brush