Home Eugène Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art Eugène Delacroix. Self Portrait, about 1837. Oil on canvas, cm. 65 x 54.5. Louvre museum, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

Eugène Delacroix. Self Portrait, about 1837. Oil on canvas, cm. 65 x 54.5. Louvre museum, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

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. Self Portrait, about 1837. Oil on canvas, cm. 65 x 54.5. Louvre museum, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

Eugène Delacroix. Convulsionists of Tangier 1837-38. Oil on canvas, cm. 97.8 x 131.3. © The Minneapolis Institute of Art

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