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Fernand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
Fernand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix is a French Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
He kept a pet lion named Baron as a houseguest, who reportedly chewed his slippers and fell asleep by the stove. Delacroix painted in a blur of fast brushstrokes, so when critics called his colors “dirty,” he shot back, “I paint the truth, not the Sunday school version.” In a quiet corner of Paris’s Saint-Sulpice church, you can still see his swirling apostles on the wall, look for the one where light hits his face like a spotlight during midday mass.
Works by Fernand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
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