Homage to the French romantic painter
This studio-museum pays tribute to one of the greatest artists of the 19th century, preserving the place in which Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) created some of his last works. In the 1850s, the artist moved into this apartment and studio in the central Paris neighborhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés while decorating the chapel of the nearby Saint-Sulpice church. After a glittering career at the vanguard of French Romanticism—he had “a sun in his head and thunderstorms in his heart” according to one obituary—he died here in 1863. Delacroix heavily influenced the modernists and, thanks to campaigning by Maurice Denis, Paul Signac and Édouard Vuillard, among others, his last home became a museum, opening in 1932. It holds more than 1,000 of Delacroix’s works and overlooks a quiet garden. Since 2004, the Musée Delcroix has been affiliated with the Louvre.
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