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Delacroix (1798-1863) PRESS KIT Delacroix (1798-1863) Exhibition March 29– July 23, 2018 Hall Napoléon 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Press Release page 3 The Exhbition Layout page 6 Pictures available for the press page 15 La liste complète des œuvres exposées est disponible sur demande : [email protected] 2 PRESS RELEASE Exhibition March 29 – July 23, 2018 Hall Napoléon Delacroix (1798-1863) Eugène Delacroix was one of the giants of French painting, but his last full retrospective exhibition in Paris dates back to 1963, the centenary year of his death. In collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre is holding a historic exhibition featuring some 180 works—mostly paintings—as a tribute to his entire career. From the young artist’s big hits at the Salons of the 1820s to his final, lesser- known, and mysterious religious paintings and landscapes, the exhibition will showcase the tension that characterizes the art of Delacroix, who strove for individuality while aspiring to follow in the footsteps of the Flemish and Venetian masters of the 16th and 17th centuries. It will aim to answer the questions raised by Delacroix’s long, prolific, and multifaceted career while introducing visitors to an engaging character: a virtuoso writer, painter, and illustrator who was curious, critical, and cultivated, infatuated with fame and devoted to his work. The exhibition will bring together masterpieces by Delacroix from museums in France (Lille, Bordeaux, Nancy, Montpellier, etc.) and exceptional international loans, particularly from the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Belgium, and Hungary. Eugène Delacroix, July 28, 1830: Liberty Leading the People Much remains to be learnt about Delacroix’s career. It spanned a little over (detail), Musée du Louvre © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du forty years, from 1821 to 1863, but most of his best known paintings were Louvre) / Michel Urtado produced during the first decade. The output from the next three quarters of his career is difficult to define, as it cannot be confined to a single artistic This exhibition is organized by the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and the movement. Although Delacroix is often hailed as a forerunner of modern Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. colorists, his career does not always fit a formalist interpretation of 19th-century art. Exhibition curators: Sébastien Allard, Director of the Department of Paintings, The exhibition is organized in three sections, presenting the three major Musée du Louvre; Côme Fabre, periods in Delacroix’s long career and highlighting the motivations that may Department of Paintings, Musée du have inspired and guided his painting. The first section—focusing on the Louvre; Asher Miller, Department of conquest and triumph of the first decade—studies the artist’s break with European Paintings, The Metropolitan neoclassicism and his renewed interest in the expressive and narrative Museum of Art. possibilities of paint. The second part explores the ways in which his large public murals (his main activity from 1835 to 1855) impacted on his easel This exhibition enjoys the support of Caisse painting, with its visible tension between the monumental and the decorative. d’Épargne, Kinoshita Group, Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France and Deloitte. Finally, the third section shows how his later years were seemingly dominated by a keen interest in landscape painting, tempered by an attempt to extract the essence from his visual memories. These keys to interpretation allow for a new classification that goes beyond a PRACTICAL INFORMATION mere grouping by genre and transcends the classical–Romantic divide, Opening hours: daily except Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and until 9:45 p.m. on indicating instead that Delacroix’s painting resonated with the great artistic Wednesdays and Fridays movements of his day: Romanticism of course, but also Realism, eclecticism, Admission: €15 (collections + exhibitions) and various forms of Historicism. Time slot booking (compulsory): www.ticketlouvre.fr Further information: www.louvre.fr/en #expoDelacroix Musée du Louvre External Relations Department Press Contact Anne-Laure Béatrix, Director Céline Dauvergne Adel Ziane, Head of Communications Subdepartment [email protected] Sophie Grange, Head of Press Division Tel. + 33 (0)1 40 20 84 66 3 Paintings by Delacroix on display in the museum’s galleries Denon wing, Level 1, the Salle Mollien and the Galerie d’Apollon Sully wing, Level 2, Rooms 942 (Delacroix) and 950 (Moreau-Nélaton collection) Because of their size, the two largest paintings by Delacroix in the Louvre’s collection—The Death of Sardanapalus and The Capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders—cannot be moved to the Hall Napoléon. They will therefore remain in the Salle Mollien (Denon wing, Level 1), where they are on permanent display. Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, Musée du From March 21 and for the duration of the exhibition, they will be joined Louvre © Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN - Grand Palais / by Christ in the Garden of Olives, an exceptional loan from the City of Angèle Dequier Paris. This recently conserved painting is usually in the transept of the church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. This is a unique opportunity for museum visitors to see the first religious painting commissioned from the young Delacroix in 1824 on display next to The Death of Sardanapalus—two works that were both exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1827–1828. The Louvre also boasts one of Delacroix’s finest decorative works, Apollo Victorious over Python, painted in the central panel of the ceiling in the Galerie d’Apollon (Denon wing, Level 1), designed in the 1660s by Charles Le Brun. The Louvre holds the world’s largest collection of paintings by Delacroix. Although most of them will be on display in the retrospective exhibition in the Hall Napoléon, some will remain in the permanent collections on Eugène Delacroix, Christ in the Garden of Olives. Before con- Level 2 of the Sully wing, notably the Battle of Poitiers, the Portrait of servation treatment. Paris, church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis, Frédéric Chopin, and one of the later versions of Medea about to Murder COARC © COARC / Roger-Viollet Her Children (known as Furious Medea). The museum ticket allows visitors to admire these masterpieces by Delacroix as well as those featured in the exhibition in the Hall Napoléon. Eugène Delacroix, Apollo Victorious over Python. Galerie d’Apollon, Musée du Louvre © Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN - Grand Palais / Olivier Ouadah 4 AT THE LOUVRE AUDITORIUM AT THE MUSÉE DELACROIX Lectures Grappling with the Modern April 5, 2018 at 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (duration 75 mins) From Delacroix to the Present Day Presentation of the exhibition “Delacroix (1798–1863)” (in French) April 11–July 23, 2018 by Sébastien Allard and Côme Fabre, Musée du Louvre. In parallel to the retrospective exhibition at the Louvre, the Musée Delacroix is holding April 13, 2018 at 12:30 p.m. an exhibition on the murals painted by Presentation of the exhibition “Grappling with the Modern” (in Delacroix for the Chapelle des Saints-Anges French) in the church of Saint-Sulpice (which has by Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Musée Delacroix, and Marie Montfort, Ville de recently undergone conservation work). Paris. They include Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, a magnificent monumental painting that is often regarded as the artist’s spiritual May 3, 17, 24, and 31, 2018 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. testament; commissioned in 1849, it was not Delacroix: the Story of an Oeuvre completed until 1861. Delacroix set up his last Series of lectures, Art on Stage, and literary fiction (in French) studio (now the Musée Delacroix) on Rue de “You treat me as only the glorious dead are treated” by Sébastien Allard Fürstenberg, near Saint-Sulpice, in order to finish these superb decorative works that are and Côme Fabre, readings of critical texts, May 3, 2018. of such significance to the museum. Delacroix, a Young Man of the Enlightenment? with Sébastien Allard Moreover, the analysis and conservation and Danièle Cohn, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Readings of work have shed new light on these three extracts from Delacroix’s Journal and Letters, May 17, 2018. chapel paintings by Delacroix. The exhibition will be an opportunity to bring Eugène Delacroix, Notes from a Journey to Morocco: text and sketches, together works by Delacroix and by the many Art on Stage by Marie-Pierre Salé, Musée du Louvre, May 24, 2018. 19th- and 20th-century artists he inspired, Reading from Delacroix’s travel journal . including Gauguin, Epstein, Redon, and The Speech Delacroix Never Gave Chagall. Literary fiction – original creation by Adrien Goetz, Académie des Talks, tours, and workshops (in French) Beaux-Arts, May 31, 2018. Four talks on the theme of “Conservation Secrets”, exhibition tours, Concerts workshops, a tour with a storyteller, and April 4 to May 17, 2018 a walking tour from the museum to the “Delacroix and Music” church of Saint-Sulpice. Information: Six thematic events featuring works by Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, www.musee-delacroix.fr Mozart, Haydn, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Gounod, and David: “Chopin’s Three Sonatas” (April 4, 2018 at 8 p.m.); “Chopin’s Legacy” (April 6, 2018 at 8 p.m.); “Romantic Figures” (April 7, 2018 at 4 p.m.); “Travels in the East” (April 12, 2018 at 12:30 p.m.); “Viennese Passions” (May 16, 2018 at 12:30 p.m.); “From Haydn to LOUVRE AUDITORIUM Chopin” (May 17, 2018 at 12:30 p.m.) PRACTICAL INFORMATION Information: Art history film +33 (0)1 40 20 55 55, Monday to Friday, April 18, 2018 at 12:30 p.m. 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Delacroix, le dernier combat (“Delacroix, the Final Battle”) www.louvre.fr Tickets: by Laurence Thiriat.
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