Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix

Place: Charenton-Saint-Maurice

Born: 1798

Death: 1863

Biography:

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. He was born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France in 1798. 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 to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. He died in Paris, France in 1863.