Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix was a French painter who is considered the leader of the French romantic movement in art. He began his formal training as an artist when he was a teenager. In 1822, he debuted at the Paris Salon, the annual art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he exhibited what is considered his first masterpiece, Dante and Virgil in Hell. He painted many pictures on historical subjects. Later in his career he painted murals for government buildings, including ceiling paintings for the Louvre, the Palais-Bourbon, and the Church of Saint Sulpice