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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Eugène Delacroix; Eugène Delacroix; Eugène Delacroix |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dominique de Font-Réaulx; Eugène Delacroix |
ISBN: | 9782367490441 2367490449 |
OCLC Number: | 1046075084 |
Description: | 575 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm. |
Series Title: | Collection "XIXe art." |
Other Titles: | Liberté d'être soi |
Responsibility: | Dominique de Font-Réaulx. |
Abstract:
This is the first major monograph devoted to one of the favorite French painters, Eugène Delacroix, to appear for several decades. It is the work of Dominique de Font-Réaulx, director of the museum Delacroix (Louvre Annex) and will be published on the occasion of the immense retrospective dedicated to the painter, which will take place at the Louvre Museum in April 2018. Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was one of the greatest French artists of the 19th century. His artistic creation, rich, varied, multiple, distinguishes him. Hero of the romantic generation of the 1820s, embodying with his successes tinged with scandal the renewal of painting, he was also one of the greatest painters of religious or civil scenery, until the end of his life. Working alone, having founded neither school nor workshop, he was nevertheless recognized as master and model by many artists after him. Talented colorist, his drawing practice, ignored during his lifetime, was one of the great revelations of the sale after his death. Inhabited by the genius of painting, sure from his earliest years of his talent, he was tempted by writing, which he practiced all his life, journal, correspondence, theoretical essays, short news. This well-illustrated reference book (more than 400 reproductions) will present, in a transversal way, all the facets of this romantic genius.
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