A handsome volume exploring delacroixs works his artistic contemporaries and the generations of great artists he inspired eugene delacroix 1789 1863 a dominant figure in 19th century french art was a complex and contradictory painter whose legacy is deep and enduring this important beautifully illustrated book considers delacroix in his own time alongside contemporaries such as courbet fromentin and the poet charles baudelaire as well as his significant influence on successive gener