They don’t make paintings like “Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi” anymore. The slow, ruminative medium of oil paint on canvas has pretty much had it as the sharpest system for the memorable delivery ...

A masterpiece by 19th-century French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), thought to be lost for close to 170 years, has joined the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Titled Women of ...

“The genius of Delacroix is not debatable, it is not demonstrable, it is something one feels,” wrote the French writer Alexandre Dumas. The Louvre is currently hosting a once-in-a-generation tribute ...

Eugène Delacroix “Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother” (1830) (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) This show might have felt like a blip on your radar during the packed Fall 2018 art ...

On the night of April 10, 1826, after a devastating, yearlong siege by Ottoman Turkish forces, the desperate defenders of the ancient Greek city of Missolonghi valiantly tried to usher its starving ...

Eugene Delacroix's 1837 "Self-Portrait with Green Vest," ca. 1837, portrays the artist as a handsome and successful painter at the height of his powers. Photo: Musée ...

Eugène Delacroix was the leading artist of the French Romantic period, a master of colour whose painting and writing influenced Renoir, Manet, Pissarro, Gauguin, Cezanne and many others. WILLIAM COOK ...

When, for its new exhibition devoted to Eugène Delacroix and those he influenced, the National Gallery chose as its livery the image of a cornered lion, so vivid you can hear its roar, it was deemed ...

Few artists have delighted and scandalised the public as much as Eugène Delacroix. The greatest French painter of the first half of the 19th century, who is the subject of a landmark retrospective at ...

The Lion Hunt. Photo: Eugène Delacroix/Franck Raux/RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY. Prepare to grapple with the cosmic grandiosity and optical hot-messes of that 19th-century French freak of ...