Eugène Delacroix

French | 1798 - 1863

Eugène Delacroix was a French 19th Century artist who was born in 1798. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Musée National Eugène Delacroix in Paris. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza have featured Eugène Delacroix's work in the past.Eugène Delacroix's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 3 USD to 9,875,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 9,875,000 USD for Tigre jouant avec une tortue, sold at Christie's New York in 2018. Eugène Delacroix has been featured in articles for The Guardian, Glasstire and Christie's Daily. The most recent article is Fitzwilliam Museum: What’s Wrong with the Chronology of Art? This Thematic Rehang Is Choppy and Underwhelming written for Telegraph in March 2024. The artist died in 1863.

Artist's alternative names: E. Delacroix, Eugene Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix

16 sheets: Album cartonné composé de 16 feuillets de diverses couleurs numérotés de 1 à 28, vers 1817-1824

various media

23 x 30 cm

Apollo slays Python, 1850

oil on paper laid down on canvas

25¾ x 23 5/8 in.

Cheval arabe attaché à un piquet

oil on canvas

37 x 47 cm (14 9/16 x 18 1/2 in)

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At Auction

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By Eugène Delacroix

Peege Auction House

Available Artworks

Satan

By Eugène Delacroix

Ader

Saint Sébastien soigné par les saintes Femmes

By Eugène Delacroix

Artcurial

In an Algerian Mosque

By Eugène Delacroix

David Duggleby Ltd

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Recent Auction Results

Untitled

By Eugène Delacroix

-5%

below mid-estimate

COLLECTive Hudson

Tres estudios de esculturas clásicas del Louvre

By Eugène Delacroix

+74%

above mid-estimate

Fernando Duran

Studies

By Eugène Delacroix

Osenat, Fontainebleau

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Current Exhibitions

Black on White: Rubens Graphics From the KMSKA Collection

KMSKA, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Antwerp | Belgium

Jan 26,2024 - May 12,2024

Ingres and Delacroix: Artists’ Objects

Musée National Eugène Delacroix

6e | Paris | France

Mar 27,2024 - Jun 10,2024

L’incanto Di Orfeo

Palazzo Medici Riccardi

Florence | Italy

Mar 20,2024 - Sep 08,2024

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Articles

Fitzwilliam Museum: What’s Wrong with the Chronology of Art? This Thematic Rehang Is Choppy and Underwhelming

Telegraph 14/03/2024

Well done the Cambridge museum for avoiding harrumphing and for keeping its ‘spirit’ – but this could have done with greater aesthetic flair.

‘Inclusivity Shouldn’t Be Controversial’: Will a Radical Art Rehang Give Cambridge an Unwanted ‘Woke’ Row?

The Guardian 10/03/2024

Fitzwilliam Museum keen to avoid kind of criticism that has hit Tate and National Portrait Gallery with shake-up of displays

Echoes Across Time and Place: “Afro-Atlantic Histories” at the Dallas Museum of Art

Glasstire 29/01/2024

In the summer of 2022, I had the opportunity to see Afro-Atlantic Histories at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

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Coverage

“ ..Assembled with an eye to the artist's process, the collection highlights how drawing shaped Delacroix's formation throughout his career; his application of the medium in the preparation of prints, paintings,... ”
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“ ..A major nineteenth-century painter, Delacroix attracted critical attention when very young with his work's power and inventiveness... ”
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Musée du Louvre

“ ..Moreau-Nélaton continued his father's work as art historian, and in 1916 published a work entitled Delacroix Raconté par Lui-même ... ”
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Musée du Louvre

“ ..Moreau-Nélaton's artistic tastes and choices were undoubtedly influenced by his familiarity with the work of Delacroix... ”
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Musée du Louvre

“ ..Rubens, best known for his fleshy nude women, also embraced a broad array of subjects, from religious and mythological scenes to landscapes and portraits... ”
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Royal Academy of Arts