Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix 🇫🇷

Eugène Delacroix (Known as "Leader of the French Romantic School / Painter of Liberty Leading the People")
French Romantic Master Painter, Lithographer, Muralist
Born 26 April 1798 🇫🇷 Charenton-Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne), France
Passed Away 13 August 1863 Paris, France
Lifespan 65 years old
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"Color is nothing if it does not accord with the subject and if it does not increase the effect of the painting by its imagination. I have no love for reasonable painting."

Archival Overview

Supreme leader of the French Romantic movement in visual art whose vibrant expressive color, tempestuous brushwork, and revolutionary masterpiece Liberty Leading the People inspired the Impressionists and Modernists.

Biographical Record

Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) broke decisively with the rigid Neoclassicism of Ingres, arguing that color and passion, not sterile contours, constitute the true soul of painting. Inspired by Rubens and Venetian color, Delacroix stunned the Paris Salon with The Barque of Dante (1822) and The Massacre at Chios (1824).

His immortal masterpiece, Liberty Leading the People (*La Liberté guidant le peuple*, 1830), commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 with a bare-breasted Marianne holding high the French tricolor over the barricades, became the universal visual emblem of liberty and popular revolution. A transformative 1832 journey to Morocco infused his later orientalist paintings with incandescent North African light and exotic vibrancy.

Key Life Milestones

1830 CE

Painting of Liberty Leading the People

Created the iconic revolutionary painting celebrating the July Revolution of 1830 in Paris.

1832 CE

Diplomatic Expedition to Morocco

Traveled across Morocco and Andalusia, filling sketchbooks that revolutionized color use in European painting.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Père Lachaise Cemetery (Monumental Tomb, Division 49)
Paris, France
GPS: 48.8617, 2.3933
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