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 ...

With over 14,000 visitors, including 2,300 at the private view alone, hundreds of drawings sold, and nearly 500 museum curators from around the world in attendance, the 34th edition of the Salon du ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...