Showing posts with label 1959. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Eugene Delacroix (Set of USSR Postcards, 1959)

  Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

  • Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France (Location: Louvre, Paris, France).

  • Liberty Leading the People, 1830 (fragment).

  • Woman with a Parrot, 1827 (Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon, France).
  • Arab Comedians, 1848 (Location: Museum of Fine Arts of Tours, Tours, France).

  • Saint Georges fighting with the Dragon, 1854 (Location: Museum of Grenoble, Grenoble, France).
  • Lion Hunt in Morocco, 1854 (Location: State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia).

  • Marocan and his horse, 1855 (Location: State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia).

  • The Death of Ophelia, 1843 (Location: Private Collection).

  • Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, 1843 (Location: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France).

  • The Scene in Auerbach's Cellar.

  • Country: USSR
  • Year: 1959
  • Subject: Art
  • Impression: 50 000