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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (Charenton-Saint
Maurice, 26 april 1798 – Parijs, 13 augustus 1863) wordt gezien als de
belangrijkste Franse kunstschilder van de romantiek, vandaar dat hij ook
wel eens "Le prince des romantiques" genoemd wordt.
Hij wordt ook wel een "literair schilder" genoemd (onder meer door
Baudelaire) omdat hij zijn thema's vaak ontleende aan schrijvers als
Shakespeare (Hamlet et Horatio au cimetière) en Dante (Barque de Dante).
(Source: Wikipedia, 2016)
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13
August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of
his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.
As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes
and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the
work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired
the artists of the Symbolist movement.
A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William
Shakespeare, the Scottish writer Walter Scott and the German writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres,
Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the
Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement
rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form.
Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his
maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman
art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic.
Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also
inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with
the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action.
However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and
his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire,
"Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined
to express passion as clearly as possible."
(Source: Wikipedia, 2016)
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Verkoop van 4 juni 1951 tot 13 october 1951.
Oplage: 1,4 miljoen exemplaren.
Overigens zit er een klein foutje op deze zegel,
het geboortejaar van Delacroix is niet 1799 maar 1798.
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