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Article: Indelibly Delacroix.(Eugene Delacroix, painter)
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- The World and I
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- September 1, 1998
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An exhibition honoring the bicentennial of Delacroix's birth shows that, although the artist's Romantic-era melodramatics may not appeal to modern tastes he remains an admirably able painter.
The exhibition devoted to the last thirteen years of Eugene Delacroix's life--coming this month to the Philadelphia Museum of Art--can be hard to understand if one fails to take into account all the artist's work that came before.
The fourth child of an upper-middle-class family, Delacroix (1798-1863) was eight years old at the death of his father, who was prefect in Bordeaux. Eight years later his mother died, leaving her children in a precarious financial ...