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3. Eugene Delacroix
Madness, Love, Hope, War, and Patriotism in his masterpieces

4. Art in Detail
Eugène Delacroix
Masterpieces

7. Wednesday, 28 July 1830, at 4 pm, Charles X, receives a note from Major-General Marmont:
"Sire, it is no longer a riot, it is a revolution !“
The anger of the people roars, the streets of Paris tremble and bleed
and one artist will be the spectator, a distant observer and interpreter of the insurrection ...

8. DELACROIX, Eugène
Liberty Leading the People (28th July 1830)

9. DELACROIX, Eugène
Liberty Leading the People (28th July 1830)
1830
Oil on canvas, 260 x 325 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

11. Liberty ...
a young woman vibrant, fiery, rebellious, and victorious, she evokes the Revolution of 1789, the sans-culotte,
and popular sovereignty.

19. DELACROIX, Eugène
Christ on the Sea of Galilee
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

20. DELACROIX, Eugène
Christ on the Sea of Galilee
1841
Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 54.6 cm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

21. Delacroix fascinated by the struggles of man and nature ...
Jesus sleeping peacefully while his panicked disciples weather a violent storm.

27. DELACROIX, Eugène
The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan

28. DELACROIX, Eugène
The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan
1826
Oil on canvas, 59.6 × 73.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

29. Stark setting and aggressive movements, romantic hero fights the Muslim Hassan to avenge the death of his lover.
Weapons poised, the enemies face off ...
Giaour in swirling white with bloodshot eyes, Hassan facing his opponent with his weapon raised.

34. DELACROIX, Eugène
Louis d'Orléans Showing his Mistress

35. DELACROIX, Eugène
Louis d'Orléans Showing his Mistress
1825-26
Oil on canvas, 35,2 x 26,8 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

36. Duke of Orléans
and his lover Mariette d’Enghien
and his chamberlain Aubert le Flamenc ...

38. In a dark interior the Duke of Orléans lifts up the sheet
to show his illustrious visitor the naked
body of his lover concealing her face
... her husband failed to recognize her.

44. DELACROIX, Eugène
The Death of Sardanapalus

45. DELACROIX, Eugène
The Death of Sardanapalus
1827
Oil on canvas, 392 x 496 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

46. Above a burning pyre, King Sardanapalus, draped in white, reclines on a sumptuous jewel-inlaid bed
adorned with gilded elephant heads and covered with scarlet fabric, as his cruel sentence is carried out.

51. All logic is lost as soldiers, slaves, men, women, animals, bodies, objects,
life, and death are tangled together in piteous disarray.

56. DELACROIX, Eugène
The Barque of Dante

57. DELACROIX, Eugène
The Barque of Dante
1822
Oil on canvas, 189 x 246 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

58. Making way towards Hell ...
Dante and Virgil, piloted by Phlegyas, cross the lake surrounding the infernal city of Dis;
the souls of the damned writhe in the water, trying to escape their fate by hanging onto the boat.

66. Art in Detail_ Eugène Delacroix , Masterpieces
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