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Delacroix: Horses and Other Animals
Culture · Friday, October 2 · 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 recently restored studies of horses. Exhibited for the first time at the museum, the two stallion studies, one bay and one chestnut, testify to Delacroix’s vivid interest in the horse and its representation.\n\nFor the Romantic painter, horses, lions and tigers were objects of study and subjects he staged in numerous paintings, lithographs, and set designs throughout his career. The horses he saw during his voyages…
