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Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist who lived from the 26th of April 1798 to the 13th of August 1863. He was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school and is counted, with Ingres, among the last old Masters of painting.
Talleyrand, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, considered himself the real father of Eugène Delacroix, and the adult Eugène resembled him in appearance and character. There were medical reasons to believe his legal father, Charles-François Delacroix, could not procreate at the time of the conception.
Liberty Leading the People, painted in 1830, is probably Delacroix's best-known work. By 1832 officials deemed its glorification of liberty too inflammatory and removed it from view, and it now hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
Delacroix traveled to Spain and North Africa in 1832 with the diplomat Charles-Edgar de Mornay, as part of a diplomatic mission to Morocco shortly after the French conquered Algeria. He went to escape the civilization of Paris and produced over 100 paintings and drawings of North African life.
Delacroix died on the 13th of August 1863 after a severe throat infection that worsened over the winter of 1862 to 1863. He died with his housekeeper Jenny Le Guillou by his side and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Delacroix's expressive brushstrokes and study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the Symbolist movement. Renoir and Manet made copies of his paintings, and Degas purchased his portrait of Baron Schwiter.