MANNER OF EUGENE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)
MANNER OF EUGENE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)
La Félicité de la Régence (after Sir Peter Paul Rubens)
oil on canvas
72 x 58 cm
Several nineteenth century French artists such as Gericault, Manet and most notibly EUGENE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS) are well known for their studies of Old Masters held by the Louvre, opened to the public in 1793.
Delacroix Like many of his contemporaries, made copies after the Old Masters. While travelling to a spa in 1850, he stopped in Antwerp, where the art collections so impressed him that he made a return trip on his way back to Paris. It was during these visits that Delacroix fell under the spell of Rubens. In a letter to his friend, Charles Soulier, he writes: “Neither you nor Villot can begin to imagine what Rubens is about. In Paris, you don’t have anything one can really call a masterpiece. Just accept, my fine friend Crillon, that you don’t know Rubens, and believe in my love for this madman… don’t you find that I’ve recaptured my youth? It isn’t the spa - it’s Rubens who has worked this miracle” (Lee Johnson, Eugène Delacroix: Further Correspondence, 1817-1863, Oxford, 1991, p. 114).
An auction of paintings from Delacroix’s atelier (c.1864), held one year after the artist’s death, contained fourteen subjects after Rubens, and several more have been identified across museums and collections since then. The Medici series, from which this particular subject was taken, was well known to the artist and his circle and had been on permanent display at the Louvre since 1816.
The fluidity and handling of the present study point to its likely execution in France during the mid 19th century and draws parallels with known similar studies by Delacroix and circle of the period.
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Flemish Baroque painter and one of the most influential artists of his time. He was known for his mastery of colour, composition, and movement, and his works had a profound impact on the development of European art.
The Medici series is a collection of paintings created by Rubens for the House of Medici, a powerful family in Florence, Italy. The series consists of 24 large-scale paintings, which were commissioned by the Medici family to decorate the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
The paintings depict scenes from the life of the Medici family, as well as allegorical representations of their virtues and achievements. The series was created between 1622 and 1625.
see: for a similar study: The Stage of Archduchess Isabella (After Rubens) Sotheby's London, lot 77 2015Click here to share:
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MANNER OF EUGENE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS)
La Félicité de la Régence (after Sir Peter Paul Rubens)
oil on canvas
72 x 58 cm
Several nineteenth century French artists such as Gericault, Manet and most notibly EUGENE DELACROIX (SAINT-MAURICE 1798-1863 PARIS) are well known for their studies of Old Masters held by the Louvre, opened to the public in 1793.
Delacroix Like many of his contemporaries, made copies after the Old Masters. While travelling to a spa in 1850, he stopped in Antwerp, where the art collections so impressed him that he made a return trip on his way back to Paris. It was during these visits that Delacroix fell under the spell of Rubens. In a letter to his friend, Charles Soulier, he writes: “Neither you nor Villot can begin to imagine what Rubens is about. In Paris, you don’t have anything one can really call a masterpiece. Just accept, my fine friend Crillon, that you don’t know Rubens, and believe in my love for this madman… don’t you find that I’ve recaptured my youth? It isn’t the spa - it’s Rubens who has worked this miracle” (Lee Johnson, Eugène Delacroix: Further Correspondence, 1817-1863, Oxford, 1991, p. 114).
An auction of paintings from Delacroix’s atelier (c.1864), held one year after the artist’s death, contained fourteen subjects after Rubens, and several more have been identified across museums and collections since then. The Medici series, from which this particular subject was taken, was well known to the artist and his circle and had been on permanent display at the Louvre since 1816.
The fluidity and handling of the present study point to its likely execution in France during the mid 19th century and draws parallels with known similar studies by Delacroix and circle of the period.
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Flemish Baroque painter and one of the most influential artists of his time. He was known for his mastery of colour, composition, and movement, and his works had a profound impact on the development of European art.
The Medici series is a collection of paintings created by Rubens for the House of Medici, a powerful family in Florence, Italy. The series consists of 24 large-scale paintings, which were commissioned by the Medici family to decorate the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
The paintings depict scenes from the life of the Medici family, as well as allegorical representations of their virtues and achievements. The series was created between 1622 and 1625.
see: for a similar study: The Stage of Archduchess Isabella (After Rubens) Sotheby's London, lot 77 2015Click here to share:
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