Eugene Delacroix was the greatest French painter of the Romantic Movement. Delacroixs output was enormous. After his death his executors found more than 9;000 paintings; pastels; and drawings in his studio and he prided himself on the speed at which he worked; declaring If you are not skilful enough to sketch a man falling out of a window during the time it takes him to get from the fifth storey to the ground; then you will never be able to produce monumental work. Among great painters he was also one of the finest writers on art. He was a voluminous letter writer and kept a journal from 1822 to 1824 and again from 1847 until his death - a marvelously rich source of information and opinion on his life and times. His influence; particularly through his use of color; was prodigious; inspiring Renoir; Seurat; and van Gogh among others. Van Gogh wrote about him: Only Rembrandt and Delacroix could paint the face of Christ.
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