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Lot 240
Description:
ORIENTALIST STALLION AND RIDER oil on canvas, framed unsigned
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Circa:
- French (1798-1863) Notes:
- H15 3/4 W13"*Artist biography: The son of a government minister, Delacroix was born near Paris. As a student of the Neoclassical painter Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, he received the customary academic training, copying Antique sculpture and the work of Raphael and the old masters. He was inspired by the great colorists of the 16th and 17th centuries, Paolo Veronese and Peter Paul Rubens, to develop a vibrant style which emphasized form through the broad use of color, rather than meticulous drawing. From 1822, he exhibited grand subjects drawn from history and literature at the Salon, where he initially faced opposition from an art establishment more inclined towards Neoclassicism. Delacroix was a friend of Richard Parkes Bonington, and was impressed by the work of Constable. In 1825 he travelled to England, and in 1832 visited Morocco, where he sketched the exotic subjects which frequently appear in his later works. In addition to the large Salon paintings which he produced throughout his career, he received official commissions to decorate the libraries of the Palais Bourbon and Palais du Luxembourg, painted vivid oil sketches and made lithographs. By the 1850s he was widely recognized as the leading exponent of French Romantic painting and one of the greatest painters of the day. Nevertheless, he was only elected to the Institut de France in 1857, on his 8th application. His autobiographical journals shed much light on his life and times.
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