Musée national Eugène Delacroix
Musée national Eugène Delacroix | |
Established | 1971 |
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Location | 6th arrondissement at 6, rue de Furstenberg, Paris, France |
Type | art museum |
Collections | artist's only three attempts at fresco from Valmont (1834); the Education of the Virgin painted in Nohant in 1842; and Magdalene in the Desert exhibited at the 1845 |
The Musée national Eugène Delacroix (English: National Eugène Delacroix Museum), also known as the Musée Delacroix, is an art museum dedicated to painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and located in the 6th arrondissement at 6, rue de Furstenberg, Paris, France. It is open daily except Tuesday; an admission fee is charged.
History
The museum is located in painter Eugène Delacroix's last apartment; he moved to this location on December 28, 1857, and remained until his death on August 13, 1863. In 1929, the Société des Amis d'Eugène Delacroix was formed to prevent the building's destruction; in 1952, the Société acquired the apartment, studio, and garden, and in 1954 donated the property to the French government. In 1971, the site became a national museum, and in 1999 its garden was renovated. Léon Printemps had his studio in this same building, where he died on 9 July 1945. Since 2004 the museum has been managed by the Louvre.[1]
Collection
Today the museum contains Delacroix's memorabilia and works, exhibiting pictures from nearly every phase of his career, including the artist's only three attempts at fresco from Valmont (1834); the Education of the Virgin painted in Nohant in 1842; and Magdalene in the Desert exhibited at the 1845 Salon. It also contains:
- Drawings, primarily studies for paintings in the Chapelle des Saints-Anges at the Église Saint-Sulpice, but also drawings by some of Delacroix's friends and colleagues (Lassalle-Bordes, Huet, Poterlet, Saint-Marcel, Colin).
- Notes, sketches, and souvenirs for Delacroix's Morocco trip in 1832, including burnooses, haiks, caftans, djellabas, jewelry, sabers, cushions, slippers, boots, and ceramics.
- Studio items, including easel, palettes, painting tables, a glass he used for washing up, a small group of decorated faiences, and a pair of candlesticks.
- Photographs of Delacroix toward the end of his life, and letters to and from Delacroix.
- A library and documents concerning Delacroix and entourage, with more than 1,000 works (monographs, exhibition catalogues, research, etc.).
See also
Notes
- ^ "The musée national Eugène-Delacroix". Louvre.
References
- Musée national Eugène Delacroix
- Paris.org entry
- Frommer's article
- Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863): Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from North American Collections, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- The Entombment of Christ (1820)
- The Barque of Dante (1822)
- Mademoiselle Rose (c. 1820–1824)
- Head of an Old Greek Woman (1824)
- Orphan Girl at the Cemetery (c. 1824)
- The Massacre at Chios (1824)
- Horse Frightened by a Thunderstorm (c. 1824)
- Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826)
- The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan (1826, 1835, 1856)
- The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero (1826)
- Louis d'Orléans Showing Off His Mistress (1826)
- Portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter (1826–1830)
- Woman Stroking a Parrot (1827)
- The Death of Sardanapalus (1827, 1844)
- Cromwell at Windsor Castle (1828)
- The Murder of the Bishop of Liège (1829)
- Liberty Leading the People (1830)
- A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother (1830–1831)
- The Battle of Nancy (1831)
- Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I (1831)
- The Picador (1832)
- Arab Rider Charging (1832)
- Women of Algiers (1834, 1847–1849)
- The Natchez (1834–35)
- Christ on the Cross (1835)
- The Battle of Taillebourg, 21 July 1242 (1837)
- The Kaïd, A Moroccan Chief (1837)
- Convulsionists of Tangiers (1837–1838)
- Warrior by a Tomb (1838)
- Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand (1838)
- Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople (1840)
- Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (1840)
- The Sultan of Morocco (1845)
- The Abduction of Rebecca (1846)
- The Bride of Abydos (pre-1849, 1843–1849)
- Christ Asleep during the Tempest (c. 1853)
- Lion Devouring a Rabbit (c. 1855)
- The Two Foscari (1855)
- The Lion Hunt (1855)
- Ovid Among the Scythians (1859, 1862)
- Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable (1860)
- Horses Leaving the Sea (1860)
- Tiger with a Tortoise (1862)
- Sunset (c. 1850)
- Charles-François Delacroix (father)
- Charles-Henri Delacroix (brother)
- Henriette de Verninac (sister)
- Jean-François Oeben (grandfather)
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- Henri-François Riesener
- Jean-Henri Riesener
- Théodore Géricault
- Richard Parkes Bonington
- Paul Huet
- Ary Scheffer
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
- Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Paris
- Homage to Delacroix (1864 Henri Fantin-Latour painting)
- Delacroix (crater)