Delacroix, Eugène

Delacroix's enormous involvement in contemporary artistic and intellectual life is recorded in his journal, kept from 1823 to 1854 (tr. by W. Pach, 1937, repr. 1972; selections tr., 1980, 1995).

See also his selected letters, 1813–63, ed. by J. Stewart (1971); T. Wilson-Smith, Delacroix, A Life (1992); E. Davies, Portrait of Delacroix (1994); J. Lindsay, Death of the Hero (1960); The Restless Eye (video, 1980); L. Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue (1981–86) and Delacroix Pastels (1995); study by F. Trapp (1988); N. M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Eugène Delacroix: Prints, Politics and Satire (1991); M. Hannoosh, Painting and the Journal of Eugène Delacroix (1995).

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