Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix [ø.ʒɛn də.la.kʁwa] (* 26 April 1798 in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, Paris; † 13 August 1863 in Paris) was a French Painter. He is recognised for the vividness of his imagination and his generous approach to the Colours as a pioneer of the Impressionism and presented annually in the Paris Salon Painting whose passionate Subjects caused a sensation and often shocked.
Although Delacroix's works are attributed to the French Late Romanticism However, he refused to be associated with the increasingly popular trend of the romantic school to be added.[1] He became a role model for many Impressionists who decidedly distanced themselves from the Romantic school and the Classicism demarcated.
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