Home Eugène Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art Eugène Delacroix. The Boat of Dante, 1822. Oil on canvas, cm. 189 x 246. Louvre museum, Paris

Eugène Delacroix. The Boat of Dante, 1822. Oil on canvas, cm. 189 x 246. Louvre museum, Paris

Edouard Manet. Music in the Tuileries Gardens, 1862. Oil on canvas, cm. 76.2 x 118.1. The National Gallery, London, Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917 © The National Gallery, London. Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix. The Boat of Dante, 1822. Oil on canvas, cm. 189 x 246. Louvre museum, Paris

Eugène Delacroix. Shipwreck off a Coast, 1862. Oil on canvas, cm. 38.1 × 45.1. © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas / Bridgeman Images

Eugène Delacroix. The Death of Sardanapalus 1827. Oil on canvas, cm. 395 x 425. Louvre Museum, Paris