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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Delacroix, Eugène Creator Qualifier: Attributed to Creator Nationality: European; French Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1798 - 1863 Biography: Eug¿ne Delacroix studied under history painter Pierre-Narcisse Gu¿rin (1774-1833) and at the ¿cole des Beaux-Arts, though he did not succeed in competitions there. He soon befriended romantic painter Th¿odore G¿ricault (1791-1824) and exhibited at his first Salon in 1822 his powerful, moody The Barque of Dante (Mus¿e du Louvre, Paris). In the next Salon, inspired by the recent events in the Greeks' struggle for independence against the Turks, Delacroix showed Scenes from the Massacres at Chios (Mus¿e du Louvre, Paris), a painting whose anti-academic composition, free brushwork, and brilliant color caused hostile critics to accuse the artist of the "massacre of painting." Nevertheless, he was awarded a Salon medal and the state purchased the picture.After the early death of G¿ricault, the young artist became the titular head of the French romantic artistic movement, as much for his innovative technique as his new themes. Widely read and an Anglophile, Delacroix drew frequently from Brit Gender: M Creator Name-CRT: Eugène Delacroix Title: Figure in Turkish Costume Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1856 Creation End Date: 1863 Creation Date: c. 1856-1863 Object Type: Paintings Materials and Techniques: oil on paper, glued to canvas Dimensions: Unframed: 43.2cm x 32.4cm AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1970.159 Credit Line: Gift of Paul and Odette Wurzburger Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Provenance: Artist's estate sale, Paris, Drouot, 17-19 February 1864, in the section Études après nature (lot 188) as one of Trois études de costumes d'hommes de l'Orient (in annoted copy in Frick Library, New York, handwritten in margin: 215, 255, 155). To M. Muret (or M. Prévost). Mme Marie-Louise Guinot, ca. 1926-27. Her husband Georges Aubry, who sold it ca. 1930. His son, Claude Aubry, bought the sketch at the Paris sale, Drouot, 6 March 1967 (lot 7). Paul and Odette Wurzburger, Cleveland. Given to the CMA in 1970. AMICA ID: CMA_.1970.159 AMICA Library Year: 2001 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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