Brief biography at the Getty Museum

This became Delacroix's theme: that the achievements of the spirit- all that a great library contained- were the result of a state of society so delicately bal…

His remains the finest palette in France and nobody in our country has possessed at once such calm and pathos, such shimmering color. We all paint in him.

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix, a painter of noble lineage, who carried a sun in his head and storms in his heart; who for forty years played upon the keybo…