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

A Mad Woman

c. 1822
Oil on canvas, 41 x 33 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans

This haunting oil study of an old woman in despair, prepared for the Massacre at Chios, was taken from a Parisian model.




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