Eugene Delacroix: Selected Letters, 1813-1863

Inbunden bok. MFA Publications. 2001. 432 sidor.

Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag saknas. Illustrerad med verk av konstnären. Text på engelska. Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863) var en fransk målare och illustratör. Delacroix var en framstående intellektuell personlighet som utövade ett starkt inflytande på den franska konsten. Delacroix var en av de främsta företrädarna för det romantiska måleriet och en av de viktigaste inspiratörerna för det sena 1800-talets orientering mot ett friare och expressivt måleri.
This volume contains the most representative and informative selection available of the letters of Eugene Delacroix, perhaps the most brilliant visual artist of the French Romantic movement. As edited by Jean Stewart, they are divided into four sections: the first letters were written in his teens and early twenties, and show the essential loneliness that would dominate his life; the second, stretching to the age of 35, detail the travels that indelibly marked him; the third group dates from his return to France in 1833, telling of his grand commissions and of his relationships with George Sand and Mme. de Forget; and last are the letters from his final years, a time of official acceptance and relations with such notable figures as Stendhal and Merimee. Intelligently edited and fluently translated, these Selected Letters bring to life, in his own words, one of the greatest artistic geniuses of the 19th century.