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Delacroix, Horses and Other Animals
Culture · Sunday, September 13 · 12:00 · Paris
Musée national Eugène Delacroix, 6, rue de Furstemberg
Free
The Delacroix Museum presents a new hanging that explores Eugène Delacroix's animal world, on the occasion of the acquisition of two studies of horses, recently restored. On display for the first time at the museum, the two studies of stallions, a bay and a golden bay, bear witness to Delacroix's keen interest in the horse and its representation. For the Romantic painter, horses, lions and tigers were a subject of study and a theme he staged in many paintings, lithographs, set designs… throughout his career. The horses he sees during his voya…
