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Eugène Delacroix

1798 - 1863

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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( DEL-ə-krwah, -⁠KRWAH, French: [øʒɛn dəlakʁwa]; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène Delacroix has received more than 2,391,905 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Eugène Delacroix is the 24th most popular painter (up from 28th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from France (up from 45th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Painter.

Eugène Delacroix is most famous for his painting of Liberty Leading the People, which commemorates the July Revolution of 1830.

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Among painters, Eugène Delacroix ranks 24 out of 1,421. Before him are Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Titian, Donatello, Gustav Klimt, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. After him are Édouard Manet, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, El Greco, Hieronymus Bosch, and Edgar Degas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Eugène Delacroix ranks 2. Before him is Auguste Comte. After him are Adam Mickiewicz, Pedro I of Brazil, Alexandra Feodorovna, Jules Michelet, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Giacomo Leopardi, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, Archduchess Clementina of Austria, and František Palacký. Among people deceased in 1863, Eugène Delacroix ranks 1. After him are Jacob Grimm, Frederick VII of Denmark, William Makepeace Thackeray, Alfred de Vigny, Solomon Northup, Horace Vernet, Sa'id of Egypt, Jakob Steiner, Franz Xaver Gruber, Stonewall Jackson, and Christian Friedrich Hebbel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Delacroix ranks 41 out of 6,011. Before him are Denis Diderot (1713), Pierre Curie (1859), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Philip IV of France (1268). After him are André-Marie Ampère (1775), Louis XIII of France (1601), Édouard Manet (1832), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Auguste Rodin (1840), and Pierre de Coubertin (1863).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Eugène Delacroix ranks 5. Before him are Claude Monet (1840), Paul Cézanne (1839), Henri Matisse (1869), and Paul Gauguin (1848). After him are Édouard Manet (1832), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Gustave Courbet (1819), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864).

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