Paris is home to many types of museums, including art museums that are the former home and studio (atelier) of an artist. We especially enjoy visiting an atelier-style museum to better understand how the artist lived and worked.
The Musée Delacroix, tucked away in quiet square in the 6th arrondissement, is one of those atelier-style museums. We visited the museum a while ago and toured Delacroix's home, studio and garden.
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was a 19th century French painter known for monumental paintings depicting heroic scenes. Delacroix is classified as a Romantic artist because he stressed color, passion and movement in his paintings, rather than static figurative perfection.
Let's take of tour of the museum.
Below are two depictions of the artist.
The museum has a small collection of Delacroix's works, including smaller finished works and some studies for his larger works. Here is a sampling.
The museum includes Delacroix's large, brightly lit studio. Today, the studio serves as a gallery.
The museum's collection includes a colorful Picasso painting featuring an artist's atelier. The painting is inspired by two artists, Velázquez and Goya, whom Delacroix "profoundly appreciated".
We ventured into the garden where we could see the exterior of Delacroix's studio and some lovely Summer flowers.
While visiting the museum, we saw a study for Delacroix's most famous painting, Liberty Leading the People (1830).
Seeing Liberty whetted our appetite for more Delacroix.
Thanks for visiting the Musée Delacroix.
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