Eugene DeLacroix Biography:
Eugene DeLacroix, 1798-1863, was a French painter. DeLacroix is considered the foremost painter of the Romantic Movement in France. His influence as a colorist is inestimably great. He studied in Guerin's studio with Gericault, who became a major influence on his art, prints and posters. DeLacroix enriched his neoclassical training with acute attention to the works of Rubens, Michelangelo, Veronese, and the Venetian school, and later Constable, Bonington, and the English watercolorists. When his first major work, The Bark of Dante, had been exhibited in the Salon in 1822 and purchased by the government, he was, to his own surprise, recognized as the leader of the opposition to the neoclassical school of David. In temperament and choice of subjects he was a romantic, as revealed by his dramatic interpretation of scenes from mythology, literature, and political, religious, and literary history.
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