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

The Garonne

1833-37
Oil and virgin wax on plaster, 300 x 110 cm
Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon, Paris

On the pilasters, Delacroix personified the rivers of France and the seas or oceans that they flow into, such as The Garonne and The Mediterranean.




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