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Delacroix, Horses and Other Animals
Culture · Wednesday, October 7 · 12:00 · Paris
Musée national Eugène Delacroix, 6, rue de Furstemberg
Free
Delacroix Museum presents a new installation that explores Eugène Delacroix's animal world, on the occasion of the acquisition of two studies of horses, recently restored. Displayed for the first time at the museum, the two stallion studies, one chestnut and one palomino, bear witness to Delacroix's keen interest in the horse and its representation. For the Romantic painter, horses, lions and tigers were objects of study and subjects he staged in many paintings, lithographs, décors… throughout his career. The horses he sees during his voyage…
