They don’t make paintings like “Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi” anymore. The slow, ruminative medium of oil paint on canvas has pretty much had it as the sharpest system for the memorable delivery ...

A painting hanging in a French family's living room turned out to be far more valuable than just another trinket or heirloom.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have acquired the first painting to enter their collections by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), an artist whose work helped to define Romanticism in the visual arts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Before Manet, Monet, Renoir or Cezanne, Eugene Delacroix was the 19th ...

Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830) has been celebrated as an emblem of the French Republic for almost 200 years. The dynamic scene of Liberty leading revolutionaries into battle ...

Eugène Delacroix is one of French art's most famous – but possibly least understood – masters. The Louvre is hoping to change that with a full retrospective of his work, the first since the 1963 ...

The rediscovery of a small, early version of Eugene Delacroix’ landmark painting “Women of Algiers in Their Apartment” delighted scholars in June, when the early 19th century canvas surfaced at a ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Why, having included two versions of Christ and His Disciples Crossing the Sea of Galilee, omit the other two in ...

Paris – It’s been hanging on people’s walls for almost 170 years without drawing much attention, but a painting showing a group of women has turned out to be more than meets the eye. The most recent ...

I’m an art historian and professor who studies and teaches French Romantic art. So when I was in France this past summer, I made sure to see the Louvre’s retrospective exhibition of French Romantic ...

“The genius of Delacroix is not debatable, it is not demonstrable, it is something one feels,” wrote the French writer Alexandre Dumas. The Louvre is currently hosting a once-in-a-generation tribute ...

A long-lost painting not been seen in public for almost 170 years has been unearthed in a Paris home. A Parisian woman discovered she had a long-forgotten oil painting by 19th century artist Eugene ...