Delacroix, Horses and Other Animals

Musée national Eugène Delacroix, 6, rue de Furstemberg

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The Delacroix Museum presents a new display that explores Eugène Delacroix's animal world, on the occasion of the acquisition of two horse studies that have been recently restored. Exhibited for the first time at the museum, the two stallion studies, one chestnut and one palomino, attest to Delacroix's keen interest in the horse and its depiction.\n\nFor the Romantic painter, horses, lions and tigers were objects of study and subjects he staged in numerous paintings, lithographs, décors... throughout his career.\nThe horses he saw during his travels...