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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 who was regarded 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 2,502,397 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Eugène Delacroix is the 25th most popular painter (down from 24th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from France (down from 41st 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 25 out of 2,023. Before him are Diego Velázquez, Paul Gauguin, Piet Mondrian, Titian, Gustav Klimt, and Donatello. After him are Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Édouard Manet, Wassily Kandinsky, Hieronymus Bosch, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Jan van Eyck.

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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, Giacomo Leopardi, Jules Michelet, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, Josiah Warren, František Palacký, and Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1863, Eugène Delacroix ranks 1. After him are Jacob Grimm, Frederick VII of Denmark, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sa'id of Egypt, Alfred de Vigny, Horace Vernet, Franz Xaver Gruber, Solomon Northup, Jakob Steiner, Stonewall Jackson, and Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Delacroix ranks 44 out of 6,770. Before him are Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Henry IV of France (1553), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122). After him are Louis XIII of France (1601), Philip IV of France (1268), Édouard Manet (1832), Marcel Proust (1871), Coco Chanel (1883), and Auguste Rodin (1840).

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Among PAINTERS In France

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

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