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Delacroix, Horses and Other Animals
Culture · Monday, September 28 · 12:00 · Paris
Musée national Eugène Delacroix, 6, rue de Furstemberg
Free
The Delacroix Museum presents a new exhibition dedicated to Eugène Delacroix’s animal world, on the occasion of the acquisition of two horse studies recently restored. Displayed for the first time at the museum, the two stallion studies, one chestnut and the other a golden chestnut, bear witness to Delacroix’s keen interest in the horse and its representation. For the Romantic painter, horses, lions and tigers were an object of study and subjects he staged in numerous paintings, lithographs and décors… throughout his career. The horses he saw during his voyage…
