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DELACROIX parture of Fishermen (1839), Negro Dan- cers at Tangiers (1859), Pilgrimage to Notre Dame de Boulogne (1866), Boulogne Museum; Expectation, Smugglers (1841); Benediction of the Sea (1844, 1863); Wo- men surprised by the Tide, Talk at the Fountain, Washerwomen (1846) ; Well of Casbah at Tangiers (1852); Departure for Fishing, Eeturn (1855); Halt of Caravan (1864). Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 380. DELACEOIX, (FERDINAND VICTOR) EUGENE, bom at Charanton St. Mau- rice, near Paris, April 26, 1799, died in Paris, Aug. 13, 1863. His- tory painter, pupil of Gueriu. Exhibited in 1822 his Dante and Virgil, which won him reputation, and he might have received high academic honours if he had not, with Gericault and others, diverged from the prevalent classicism of the school of David and joined the romantic school, of which he became one of the leaders. He travelled in Spain and North Africa in 1831, and be- tween that and 1855 executed important public commissions, decorating the Cham- ber of Deputies, the Library of the Luxem- bourg, the Church of St. Sulpice, and gal- leries in the Louvre and the Hotel de Ville. L. of Honour, 1831 ; Officer, 1846 ; Com- mander, 1855 ; Member of Institute, 1857. Works : Dante and Virgil (1822), Massacre of Scio (1824), Twenty-eighth of July, 1830 (1830), Algerian Women (1834), Portrait of j himself (1837), Jewish Wedding in Morocco (1841), Shipwreck of Don Juan, Louvre ; Christ in Gethsemane, St. Paul, Paris ; Portrait of Marshal de Tourville (1835), Battle of Taillebourg (1837), Entry of Cru- saders into Constantinople (1841), Versailles Museum ; Death of Sardanapalus ; Death of Marino Faliero (1827), Faust and Mephis- topheles, Sir Richard Wallace, London ; Death of Charles the Bold (1834), Nancy Museum; Justice of Trajan (1840), Rouen Museum ; Marcus Aurelius (1845), Lyons Museum ; Medea (1838), Lille Museum ; Head of Actaeon, Melun Museum ; St. George, Grenoble Museum ; Two Foscari (1855), Due d'Aumale, Chantilly ; Martyr- dom of St. Stephen (1853), Arras Museum ; The Halt (1837), Nantes Museum ; Sultan of Morocco leaving his Palace (1845), Toulouse Museum ; Arab Musicians (1848), Tours Museum ; Portrait of Himself (1829), Charge of Arab Cavalry (1832), Algerian Women at Home, Daniel iu Lions' Den (1853), Michel- angelo in his Studio (1853), Mulatto Wo- man, Montpellier Museum ; Prisoner of Chillon (1835) ; Martyrdom of St. Sebas- tian (1836) ; Convulsionnaires of Tangiers (1838); Hamlet with Skull of Yorick (1839); Romeo's Farewell (1846) ; Christ Crucified (1847); Death of Valentine (1848); Apollo killing the Python (1849). Works in United States : Marguerite and Mephistopheles, W. Rockefeller, New York ; Iconoclasts, B. Wall, Providence ; Clotilda delivering the Martyrs, H. Probasco, Cincinnati ; Greek Soldier, A. J. Antelo, Philadelphia; Sultan of Morocco, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York ; Meeting of Ruth's Kinsman and Boaz, Lion Hunt, Capture of Gotz von Berlich- ingen, Groom and Mare, A. E. Borie Col- lection, Philadelphia ; The Combat, W. tVCX DEV.ACH.OIX T. Walters, Baltimore. Moreau, Dela- croix et son (Euvre (Paris, 1873); Burty, Maitres, 51; Leclercq, Caracteres, 83 ; Ch. Blanc, Artistes d. m. Temps, 23 ; Perrier, Etudes, 36 ; Chesneau, Peinture franpaise (1883); Gaz. dea B. Arts (1865), xix. 144; (1873), vii. 560 ; International Rev. (1880), viii. 357 ; Nation (1880), xxx. 388 ; L'Art (1882), xxviii. 61 ; (1883), xxxii. 76, 94 ; Meyer, Gesch., 201 ; Robaut (Chesneau), L'CEuvre complet de E. D. (Paris, 1885). DELACROIX, HENRI EUGfiNE, born at Solesmes (Nord) ; contemporary. His- tory painter, pupil of CabaneL Medal, 3d 386