Delacroix

Resource Information

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Label

Delacroix

Statement of responsibility

Sébastien Allard and Côme Fabre ; with contributions by Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Michèle Hannoosh, Mehdi Korchane, and Asher Miller

Creator

• Allard, Sébastien,

Contributor

• Korchane, Mehdi,
• Hannoosh, Michele, 1954-
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),
• Font-Réaulx, Dominique de,
• Miller, Asher Ethan,
• Fabre, Côme,

Author

• Allard, Sébastien,
• Fabre, Côme,

Contributor

• Miller, Asher Ethan,
• Korchane, Mehdi,
• Hannoosh, Michele, 1954-
• Font-Réaulx, Dominique de,

Host institution

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),

Subject

• Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863
• Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863
• Painters -- France -- Exhibitions
• Painters
• France
• Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863 -- Exhibitions

Genre

• Exhibitions

Language

eng

Summary

"French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was one of the greatest creative figures of the nineteenth century. Coming of age after the fall of Napoleon, he reconnected the present to the past on his own terms. Delacroix produced an extraordinarily vibrant body of work, setting into motion a cascade of innovations that changed the course of art. This exhibition will be the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to this amazing artist ever held in North America. The exhibition, a joint project with the Musée du Louvre, will illuminate Delacroix's restless imagination through more than 150 paintings, drawings, prints, and manuscripts--many never before seen in the United States. It will unfold chronologically, encompassing the rich variety of themes that preoccupied the artist during his more than four decades of activity, including literature, history, religion, animals, and nature. Through rarely seen graphic art displayed alongside such iconic paintings as Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826), The Battle of Nancy (1831), Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834), and Medea about to Kill Her Children (1838), this exhibition will explore an artist whose protean genius set the bar for virtually all other French painters." -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

YDX

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

ND553.D33

LC item number

A4 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs