Eugene Delacroix

Eugene Delacroix, born on April 26, 1798, in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France. The greatest French romantic painter, whose use of color was influential in the development of both Impressionist and Postimpressionist painters. His inspiration came chiefly from historical or contemporary events and literature. He is numbered among the greatest and most influential of French painters. He is most often classified as an artist of the Romantic school. His remarkable use of color was later to influence impressionist painters and …

…what I have seen." In 1833 Delacroix painted a group of murals for the king's chamber at the Palais Bourbon. He continued doing this type of painting, including panels for the Louvre and for the Museum of History at Versailles, until 1861. Much of the architectural painting involved long hours on uncomfortable scaffolding in drafty buildings, and his health suffered. He died on Aug. 13, 1863, in Paris. His apartment there was made into a museum in his memory.