Creator story
Surprising fact
A trip to Morocco transformed Delacroix, who filled notebooks with North African light and colour that fed his art for decades.
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Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was the leader of French Romanticism, master of fiery colour, movement and passion. His Liberty Leading the People became the enduring emblem of revolution.
Delacroix's expressive colour and energy paved the way for the Impressionists and for modern painting.
- Led Romanticism against the cold restraint of Neoclassicism.
- Painted Liberty Leading the People, an icon of revolution.
- His vivid colour theory directly inspired the Impressionists.
Key works
A key work by Eugène Delacroix
These works make it easiest to see how the artist changed form, content, and the very way art could exist in culture.
1830
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles X.