PARIS — Not since 1963 has the Louvre mounted a major retrospective devoted to Eugène Delacroix, the great painter of the Romantic age whose works the museum holds in almost obscene abundance.

Eugène Delacroix at the Met: A 19th-century retrospective that evokes today’s turmoil Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix sought to understand the era he called "the century of unbelievable things" ...

“Delacroix,” a retrospective of the 19th century French painter Eugène Delacroix, is a blockbuster show running this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An ambitious Romantic, Delacroix ...

Before Manet, Monet, Renoir or Cezanne, Eugene Delacroix was the 19th century French painter challenging establishment notions of what qualifies as great art.

Eugène Delacroix, “Basket of Flowers” (1848–1849), oil on canvas, 42 1/4 x 56 inches, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876– 1967), 1967 (© The ...

Eugene Delacroix is believed to have painted the watercolor, "Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben Chimol, and Pre´ciada, One of Their Daughters," 1832, immediately after returning to France from a ...

Painter Eugène Delacroix, born in a small Parisian suburb in 1798, was a principal artistic pivot on which the total transformation began.

Eugène Delacroix is one of French art's most famous – but possibly least understood – masters. The Louvre is hoping to change that with a full retrospective of his work, the first since the ...

Eugène Delacroix’s ‘Death of Sardanapalus’ confounded and scandalized his contemporaries. By . Mary Tompkins Lewis. Share. Resize ‘Death of Sardanapalus’ (1827), by Eugène Delacroix.

An exhibition of Eugène Delacroix’s drawings, watercolors, sketchbooks, preparatory studies and copies reveals a painter dedicated to tradition and innovation.