Eugène Delacroix
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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
Portrait by Nadar, c. 1857
Portrait of Delacroix early in his career
Portrait of Delacroix c. 1840 by Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin, Musée Carnavalet
The Massacre at Chios (1824)
The Massacre at Chios
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Scenes from the Massacre at Chios is the second major oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. The work is more than four meters tall, and shows some of the horror of the wartime destructio
Eugène Delacroix
…his work, countered by a vigorous, enlightened support, would continue throughout his life. Two years later he again achieved popular success for his The Massacre at Chios. Delacroix's painting of Chios Massacre during the Greek civil wars of 1823–1825 shows dying Greek civilians rounded up for enslavement by the Ottoman…
Scène des massacres de Scio, Eugène Delacroix Musée du Louvre Peintures INV 3823; C3
Compositional structure of two human pyramids
Figure of the old woman at the foot of the painting
Detail from Delacroix's study Head of a Woman, 1824