DELACROIX, Eugène
(b. 1798, Charenton-Saint-Maurice, d. 1863, Paris)

Study of the Sky at Sunset

1849
Pastel on grey paper, 190 x 240 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Some ten years before the pre-impressionist generation, Delacroix notably sketched in pastel or watercolour a series of studies of skies that reveal an astonishingly modern sense of space and of the fleeting quality of light effects.