207,380 profiles ranked

Eugène Delacroix

French painter (1798-1863) · France · Artists · Died at 65

Eugène Delacroix is read about 1,457 times a day, in 96 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?
Compare

He painted passion with cold precision. Delacroix led French Romanticism by rejecting Neoclassical rigidity for color, movement, and drama drawn from Rubens and North Africa - never sentiment, always clarity.

ArtistsArtistPaintingPhotographyArtFranceEurope19th Century

A life in dates

1863Died13 August 18631847“..that famous idea of 'beauty', which is, as everybody says, the goal of the arts.”In their wordsQuote 1847, as cited in Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972,

1828“Well! A general invasion: Hamlet rears his hideous head, Othello is preparing his dagger, that essentially murderous weapon, subversive of all good theatrical government.”In their wordsquote on Hamlet, in a letter to Victor Hugo, 1828; as quoted in Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock -, Richard

1825“I have seen here [in London] a play on Faust, the most diabolic thing imaginable. The Mephistopheles is a masterpiece of caricature and intelligence.”In their words18 June 1825Quote in a letter (written in London, England) to J. B. Pierret, 18 June 1825; as quoted in Letters of the great artists - from Blake to

1824“I must try to live austerely, as Plato did.. .I need to live a more solitary life.. .Valuable ideas beyond number miscarry because I have no continuity in my thoughts..”In their wordsMarch 1824autobiographical note in Delacroix' Journal, March 1824; as quoted in Eugene Delacroix - selected letters 1813 - 1863, ed. and translation

1822“The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.”In their wordsIntroduction (p. xxiv)

1818“For a man who is sensitive to nature, happiness consists in expressing nature.”In their words23 October 1818Quote in a letter to Delacroix' friend J. B. Pierret, 23 October 1818, from the Forest of Boixe; as quoted in Eugene Delacroix - selected

1798Born26 April 1798

Also in Deutsch

Photos 8

Autoportrait - Eugène Delacroix - Musée du Louvre Peintures RF 25Autoportrait - Eugène Delacroix - Musée du Louvre Peintures RF 25(Le camionneur) ; (Un roulier à l'auberge) - (estampe) (1er état, planche inachevée) - Eugène Delacroix - btv1b100297058(Le camionneur) ; (Un roulier à l'auberge) - (estampe) (1er état, planche inachevée) - Eugène Delacroix - btv1b100297058... Ses vêtements appesantis et trempés d'eau ont entrainé la pauvre malheureuse (Acte IV, scène VII) - estampe - E. D. (Eugène Delacroix) - btv1b100298387... Ses vêtements appesantis et trempés d'eau ont entrainé la pauvre malheureuse (Acte IV, scène VII) - estampe - E. D. (Eugène Delacroix) - btv1b100298387A présent je puis le tuer facilement ... mais quoi ! le surprendrais-je au milieu de ses prières, au moment oû il purifie son âme ! non, non. - - Ô conscience plus noire que la mort ! âme engluée dans le... - btv1b10461782tA présent je puis le tuer facilement ... mais quoi ! le surprendrais-je au milieu de ses prières, au moment oû il purifie son âme ! non, non. - - Ô conscience plus noire que la mort ! âme engluée dans le... - btv1b10461782tA présent je puis le tuer facilement ... mais quoi ! le surprendrais-je au milieu de ses prières, au moment oû il purifie son âme ! non, non. - - Ô conscience plus noire que la mort ! âme engluée dans le... - btv1b104617855A présent je puis le tuer facilement ... mais quoi ! le surprendrais-je au milieu de ses prières, au moment oû il purifie son âme ! non, non. - - Ô conscience plus noire que la mort ! âme engluée dans le... - btv1b104617855Adélaïde donnant le poison au jeune Page - Goetz de Berlichingen, Acte V, scène VIII - estampe - Eugène Delacroix - btv1b100298582Adélaïde donnant le poison au jeune Page - Goetz de Berlichingen, Acte V, scène VIII - estampe - Eugène Delacroix - btv1b100298582Ah ! je meurs Horatie (sic) ! justifie moi et ma cause auprès de ceux qui m'accuseraient ... - Quelle vaste curée a faite la mort ! que de princes frappés à la fois par le trépas ! (Acte V, scène II) -... - btv1b10029846rAh ! je meurs Horatie (sic) ! justifie moi et ma cause auprès de ceux qui m'accuseraient ... - Quelle vaste curée a faite la mort ! que de princes frappés à la fois par le trépas ! (Acte V, scène II) -... - btv1b10029846rAh ! je meurs Horatie (sic) ! justifie moi et ma cause auprès de ceux qui m'accuseraient ... - Quelle vaste curée a faite la mort ! que de princes frappés à la fois par le trépas ! - Acte V, scène II -... - btv1b10029848nAh ! je meurs Horatie (sic) ! justifie moi et ma cause auprès de ceux qui m'accuseraient ... - Quelle vaste curée a faite la mort ! que de princes frappés à la fois par le trépas ! - Acte V, scène II -... - btv1b10029848n

In their own words 10

,
Eugène Delacroix
,
10 statements, newest first

  1. ..that famous idea of 'beauty', which is, as everybody says, the goal of the arts.

    1847, Quote 1847, as cited in Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972,, Own words

  2. I have started work on a modern subject, a scene on the barricades.. .I may not have fought for my country but at least I shall have painted for her..

    Oct 18, 1830, Quote in an unpublished letter to Delacroix' brother, 18 October 1830, but mentioned by M. Sérullaz; as quoted in Eugene Delacroix -, Own words

  3. I am not doing very much as yet. I am put out by this manner of the Salon. They will end by persuading me that I have produced a veritable fiasco.

    Mar 11, 1828, Quote in a letter to Delacroix' friend Charles Soulier, 11 March 1828; as quoted in Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock,, Own words

Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0

Awards

Knight of the Legion of Honour
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Commander of the Legion of Honour

Family

Parents

Eugène Delacroix

Brothers and sisters

Is this everyone?

Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong.

Correct this family

About this person

Born 26 April 1798, Delacroix broke from the careful outlines of his rival Ingres and turned instead to the Venetian Renaissance and Rubens, building a style on color and motion over modelled form. He found his subjects not in Greek statues but in North Africa, chasing the exotic with the same intensity Lord Byron brought to nature's sublime violence. Friend and heir to Théodore Géricault, he worked as Baudelaire later described him: passionately in love with passion, coldly determined to express it clearly. His expressive brushwork and study of color's optical effects shaped the Impressionists who followed; his hunger for the exotic fed the Symbolists. He illustrated Shakespeare, Walter Scott, and Goethe as a lithographer, painted murals, and died 13 August 1863 - one of the last old Masters, and one of the few ever photographed.

Country
France
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1798 to 1863 · aged 65

Artists from France 6

SDM73.4Édouard Manet72.3Paul Gauguin74.2Wassily Kandinsky70.2Pierre-Auguste Renoir74.7Marc Chagall70.0

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.