Rider by Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863).
French painter, son of the conventional Charles Delacroix, born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice on April 26, 1798, died on August 13, 1863.
Through his mother, Eugène was descended from Aben, a distinguished student of Boulle, and was allied to the Rieseners, whose father signed so many masterpieces of furniture and his son Henri, esteemed paintings.
From his childhood, Eugène Delacroix did not reveal, like so many others, a special and exclusive disposition for painting: after solid studies at the Lycée Louis le Grand, he showed, what is more interesting, a general gift for art; it was music that seemed to attract him by preference, and all his life he remained in love with this art, from which only his violent passion for painting, which soon manifested itself, was able to tear him away.
French painter, son of the conventional Charles Delacroix, born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice on April 26, 1798, died on August 13, 1863.
Through his mother, Eugène was descended from Aben, a distinguished student of Boulle, and was allied to the Rieseners, whose father signed so many masterpieces of furniture and his son Henri, esteemed paintings.
From his childhood, Eugène Delacroix did not reveal, like so many others, a special and exclusive disposition for painting: after solid studies at the Lycée Louis le Grand, he showed, what is more interesting, a general gift for art; it was music that seemed to attract him by preference, and all his life he remained in love with this art, from which only his violent passion for painting, which soon manifested itself, was able to tear him away.