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 ...

Eugene Delacroix's 1837 "Self-Portrait with Green Vest," ca. 1837, portrays the artist as a handsome and successful painter at the height of his powers. Photo: Musée ...

A record half a million people went to the Louvre’s Eugène Delacroix blockbuster, which is headed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall. The survey brings together 180 works that span the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In 1822, Adolphe Thiers, the journalist and, later, the second elected president of France, wrote the first glowing review of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), in whom he recognized “the boldness of ...

This past spring, the Musée du Louvre in Paris experienced an attendance bump unlike any other. Not only did the iconic institution serve as the backdrop for a music video by luminaries Beyoncé and ...

Organized by the Louvre Museum in Paris, where it attracted a record-breaking number of visitors earlier this year, and currently at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, this powerful exhibition ...

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 ...

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THE death of Eugene Delacroix cuts the last bond between the great artistic epoch which commenced with the Bellini and that which had its beginning with the nineteenth century, epochs as diverse in ...