Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830) has been celebrated as an emblem of the French Republic for almost 200 years. The dynamic scene of Liberty leading revolutionaries into battle ...

“The genius of Delacroix is not debatable, it is not demonstrable, it is something one feels,” wrote the French writer Alexandre Dumas. The Louvre is currently hosting a once-in-a-generation tribute ...

They don’t make paintings like “Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi” anymore. The slow, ruminative medium of oil paint on canvas has pretty much had it as the sharpest system for the memorable delivery ...

Eugène Delacroix “Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother” (1830) (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) This show might have felt like a blip on your radar during the packed Fall 2018 art ...

Delacroix has now retired from racing and will stand at Coolmore Stud in Ireland for the coming season. As a 2-year-old, Delacroix broke his maiden at the Curragh in August earning TDN Rising Star ...

The way Delacroix used color in "Christ on the Sea of Galilee" (1853) inspired Vincent Van Gogh's use of color. The Dutch artist traveled to see the picture and wrote extensively about it to his ...

Eugene Delacroix's 1837 "Self-Portrait with Green Vest," ca. 1837, portrays the artist as a handsome and successful painter at the height of his powers. Photo: Musée ...

France had not held a major retrospective of Eugène Delacroix's work since the centenary of his death in 1963. An exhibition at the Louvre this spring and summer, which has moved to the Metropolitan ...

Few artists have delighted and scandalised the public as much as Eugène Delacroix. The greatest French painter of the first half of the 19th century, who is the subject of a landmark retrospective at ...

“I like the animals,” a subtle friend of mine remarked, quietly, after hearing me expound at perhaps tiring length on my ambivalence toward Eugène Delacroix, the subject of a grand retrospective at ...