So said Eugène Delacroix of his most famous painting ... What you see, beneath all these accomplishments, is appetite—appetite for sensation, appetite for new themes and arenas to prove ...

In his brilliant first decade of painting, the French artist Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) captured many of his era’s most evocative themes: the rise of the dandy in bourgeois culture ...

Painter Eugène Delacroix, born in a small Parisian suburb in 1798, was a principal artistic pivot on which the total transformation began. It’s as if the pressures of unstoppable change pushed ...

PARIS — Not since 1963 has the Louvre mounted a major retrospective devoted to Eugène Delacroix, the great painter of the Romantic age whose works the museum holds in almost obscene abundance.

(NEXSTAR) – A painting hanging in a French family’s living room turned out to be far more valuable than just another trinket or heirloom. An auctioneer doing inventory on the family property ...

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 du Louvre, Paris.

Jeffrey Brown reports from the Metropolitan Museum in New York. He's one of the great figures in art history, Eugene Delacroix, fantastically gifted and prolific, a celebrity who dazzled and often ...

A previously unknown painting by French Romantic giant Eugène Delacroix will come to auction this month in Paris. Measuring two feet high, Study of Reclining Lions is estimated at €200,000 to ...