An Orphan Girl in the Graveyard

Eugène Delacroix

An Orphan Girl in the Graveyard
1824
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Image Courtesy of Carol Gerten

Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix was born on April 26, 1798 in France and studied art under Pierre Guérin. He was trained in neoclassic styles of painting but was more influenced by the more colorful styles of early Flemish and Italian painters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Théodore Géricault and Paolo Veronese. Delacriox was a popular French Romantic painter.

His technique involved the contrast of colors with small brush strokes, which became an important influence on impressionists, and used modern, and exotic subjects from literature. Many of his paintings were of animals, but most of his pieces are of people. He traveled to North Africa in 1832, providing him with an expanded variety of subjects in his art.

He was not much of a teacher. He died in Paris on August 13, 1863 without any successors.

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