Delacroix is the second G1 winner for his dam from four foals. The winner of the 140 th Eclipse Stakes is not, strictly speaking, an outcross for Northern Dancer.

One brother died in battle. He came of age in 1814-1815, right at the moment of Napoleon's downfall. So, for Delacroix, he needed to find a career, and he needed to make his own mark in the world.

Delacroix, however, had no interest in the contemporary political subjects of Courbet or the Parisian themes of Impressionist painting. Apart from his scenes of North Africa, he never showed ...

Delacroix Island, once at least 800 yards wide, was reduced to a four-mile-long fishhook-shaped spit of land, at most 300 yards wide. Instead of seeing green marsh out their back windows, the ...

Delacroix would draw motifs that reappeared in his art for years to come from a 1832 trip to North Africa. It was occasioned by an invitation from Charles de Mornay, France’s ambassador to Morocco.

Delacroix and Ryan Moore winners of the Gr.3 P.W. McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes. Leopardstown. Photo: Patrick McCann/Racing Post 30.03.2025 Patrick McCann/Racing Post Delacroix and Ryan Moore ...

Delacroix mural at the Palais Bourbon, home to the French National Assembly© Sorbonne University The Hôtel de Ville after the fires of 1871 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons ...

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), considered the greatest painter of the Romantic period, is probably best known for his painting “Liberty Leading the People.” He is far less known and ...

Delacroix eulogized Byron’s poem in an 1824 entry in his journal: “That hand, whose motion is not life, yet feebly seems to menace strife.” “Missolonghi” was Delacroix’s second ...

PARIS — Not since 1963 has the Louvre mounted a major retrospective devoted to Eugène Delacroix, the great painter of the Romantic age whose works the museum holds in almost obscene abundance.

THE death of Eugene Delacroix cuts the last bond between the great artistic epoch which commenced with the Bellini and that which had its beginning with the nineteenth century, epochs as diverse ...