DELACROIX

Eugène Delacroix (17891863), a dominant figure in 19th-century French art, was a complex and contradictory painter whose legacy is deep and enduring. This important, beautifully illustrated book considers Delacroix in his own time, alongside contemporaries such a s Courbet, Fromentin, and the poet Charles Baudelaire, as well as his significant influence on successive generations of artists. De lacroixs paintings and his posthumously published Journals laid crucial groundwork for immediate successors including Cézanne, Dega s, Manet, M...[Read more]