Delacroix's universe and literatureDelacroix reads literature as a reservoir of passions and images: Dante, Hamlet, Medea, Faust and Byron become color, gesture, night and conflict.
1798 - 1863Life of the artist
Paris, London, Morocco and major trade fairsMain homes
Oil, watercolor, drawing, lithography, monumental decoration and writingPractical
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1798 -1863 · Dante, Shakespeare, Byron, Goethe and pictorial romanticism
Delacroix reads literature as a reservoir of passions and images: Dante, Hamlet, Medea, Faust and Byron become color, gesture, night and conflict.
Eugène Delacroix maintains a constant dialogue with literature. Reader of Dante, Shakespeare, Byron, Goethe, Walter Scott and ancient authors, he does not seek to faithfully illustrate a passage: he selects the moment when the action reaches its maximum tension. Dante's Boat, presented at the Salon of 1822, transforms the Divine Comedy into a physical journey through fear. Hamlet nourishes paintings and lithographs where doubt becomes posture and chiaroscuro. Medea concentrates tragic violence and maternal hesitation in a single group. Medea concentrates tragic violence and maternal hesitation in a single group. Medea concentrates tragic violence and maternal hesitation in a single group. Medea concentrates tragic violence and maternal hesitation in a single group. Medea concentrates tragic violence and maternal hesitation in a single group. Medea concentrates tragic violence and maternal hesitation in a single group. Medea concentrates tragic violence and maternal hesitation in a single group. Medea concentrates tragic violence and maternal hesitation in a single group. Medea concentrates tragic violence and maternal hesitation in a single group. Medea concentrates tragic violence and maternal hesitation in a single group. Medea thus a pictorial equivalence to rhythm, drama and poetry. The "Delacroix and literature" selection notably compares Delacroix in Hamlet and Dante and Virgil. His reading favors light.
Delacroix does not translate literature word for word: he extracts the shock, then gives it a colored body.
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Dante and romantic drama
Readings, Salon and Discovery of London place poetry and theater at the heart of ambition. This milestone illuminates the "Delacroix and literature" collection by favoring light.
Byron, Goethe and Shakespeare
Paintings and lithographs multiply shipwrecks, duels, visions and tragic heroes.
Memory and great settings
Literary subjects continue to nourish studies, paintings and written reflection.
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Critical moment
The scene is chosen just before or after an irreversible action. This line guides a reading of "Delacroix and literature" centered on light.
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Color
Reds, greens and shadows give the conflict physical intensity.
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Gesture
Arms, twists and glances condense the dramatic meaning of the text.
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Series
A character like Hamlet returns to painting, drawing and lithography.
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Six readings specific to Delacroix and literature
Works, visual language and historical landmarks make up a journey exclusively devoted to Delacroix and literature.
Literary self-portrait01
Delacroix in Hamlet
The painter borrows from the Shakespearean hero a meditative, theatrical and ambiguous identity.
Landmark work by Delacroix and literature. Reading "Delacroix and literature" through light.Divine Comedy02
Dante and Virgil
The unstable boat, the damned and the light condense the infernal crossing into physical drama.
Delacroix's landmark work and literatureAncient tragedy03
Furious Medea
The maternal body both protects and threatens, concentrating the entire tragic dilemma.
Delacroix's landmark work and literatureShakespeare04
Hamlet and Horatio at the cemetery
The skull, the earth and the two figures make meditation on death a concise scene.
Delacroix's landmark work and literatureStyle05
Critical moment
The scene is chosen just before or after an irreversible action. This line guides a reading of "Delacroix and literature" centered on light.
Key to reading for Delacroix and literatureStyle06
Color
Reds, greens and shadows give the conflict physical intensity.
Key to reading for Delacroix and literature
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