Эжен Делакруа - Алжирские женщины в своих комнатах 1834

Study for the painting Women of Algiers 1834 The Prisoner of Chillon 1834 The Turkish Rider 1834 The Women of Algiers in their Apartment 1834 Léon Riesener 1835 Lion and Tortoise 1835
Эжен Делакруа - Алжирские женщины в своих комнатах 1834

Алжирские женщины в своих комнатах 1834
180x229см холст/масло
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

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From Musée du Louvre, Paris:
This monumental historical genre scene was inspired by Delacroix’s conviction that a lifestyle resembling that of the ancients was on the point of disappearing—an impression that stayed with him until he died. Preferring the romanticism of travels in North Africa to the artistic tradition of a sojourn in Italy, he believed that Civilization’s missing link was to be found in the Orient which, having exercised a certain appeal at the start of his career, overwhelmed him when he experienced it for himself. Here was material for “twenty generations of painters,” he said.