Word: delacroix
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Last week students and lovers of art could turn to one of the richest accounts ever written of an artist in Europe, the monumental Journal of Eugene Delacroix, translated for the first time into English by able, devoted Art Critic Walter Pach...
...Delacroix, whom Renoir called the greatest artist of the French school, died in 1863 after having fought for a lifetime against the flawless but colorless classicism upheld by his great contemporary, Ingres. His three most important mural jobs, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Church of St. Sulpice and the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, are among the few French masterpieces in this medium. With the steady growth of his influence, other paintings by him have been advanced until they now occupy a third of "the line," or tier of honor, in the gallery...
Born in 1798, Delacroix had an adventurous infancy. He was dropped from a ship's side by one careless nurse, nearly burnt up by another, and when he reached the age of reason came close to hanging himself in imitation of an engraving. From his German mother Delacroix may have inherited the responsiveness to Flemish art which showed itself in a life-long admiration for Rubens. His first masterpiece, Dante and Vergil, which was exhibited when he was 24, was described by his master as "Rubens chastened." Beginning his journal in that year, Delacroix scribbled down a daily medley...
...first paintings, large allegorical exercises in the manner of Delacroix, won him early recognition. In 1873, Painter Degas went to New Orleans to visit his uncle Michel and his two younger brothers, René and Achille, who were working there in the cotton house. Brother Edgar painted an excellent view of his relatives during office hours, which hung last week in Philadelphia's exhibition. Uncle Michel in his silk hat and frock coat sits in the foreground peering at a sample of cotton. Behind him brother René is sprawled in chair reading a newspaper, while customers finger samples...
...None of the Old Masters issued prints limited to 100 proofs and signed in pencil. One never finds a Rembrandt etching, or a print by Dürer, Mantegna, Van Dyck, Goya, Turner, Delacroix or Daumier so signed and limited. These masters or their dealers printed impressions as long as people wanted them...