1825
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Sheet of Six Antique Coins is a 1825 by Eugène Delacroix, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows six old coins, each with a different face or creature carved into them. One coin has a woman’s head wearing a helmet, another shows a lion, and a third has a fierce-looking man with a beard. The middle coin is a bust of a woman holding what looks like a vase or column. The lines are rough and dark, giving everything a shadowy, textured look. The artist was playing with ancient myths and history, mixing human faces with animals. These coins weren’t real—they were imagined by the artist to look old and mysterious. Next, look up Romanticism to see how artists used imagination and drama like this.
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( DEL-ə-krwah, -KRWAH; French: ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
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