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Eugène Delacroix

1798 - 1863

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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( DEL-ə-krwah, -⁠KRWAH; French: [øʒɛn dəlakʁwa]; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugène Delacroix is the 30th most popular painter (down from 25th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from France (down from 44th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Painter.

Eugène Delacroix is most famous for his painting of Liberty Leading the People, which commemorates the July Revolution of 1830.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Eugène Delacroix ranks 30 out of 2,023. Before him are Titian, Gustav Klimt, El Greco, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and Édouard Manet. After him are Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, and Jan van Eyck.

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Among people born in 1798, Eugène Delacroix ranks 2. Before him is Auguste Comte. After him are Adam Mickiewicz, Pedro I of Brazil, Jules Michelet, Alexandra Feodorovna, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Giacomo Leopardi, Josiah Warren, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, František Palacký, and Mpande kaSenzangakhona. Among people deceased in 1863, Eugène Delacroix ranks 1. After him are Stonewall Jackson, Jacob Grimm, Dost Mohammad Khan, Frederick VII of Denmark, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sa'id of Egypt, Horace Vernet, Jakob Steiner, Alfred de Vigny, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Delacroix ranks 55 out of 6,770. Before him are Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Édouard Manet (1832), Octave Mirbeau (1848), and Henri Becquerel (1852). After him are Stendhal (1783), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Philip IV of France (1268), and Napoleon II (1811).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Eugène Delacroix ranks 8. Before him are Henri Matisse (1869), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), Paul Gauguin (1848), and Édouard Manet (1832). After him are Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Gustave Courbet (1819), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), and Georges Braque (1882).

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