Sunset, ca. 1850, Pastel on blue laid paper, mounted on paper board, Overall: 8 1/16 x 10 3/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings

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Sunset, ca. 1850, Pastel on blue laid paper, mounted on paper board, Overall: 8 1/16 x 10 3/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris), Although he is best known as a painter of complex and often turbulent figural compositions, Delacroix consistently displayed sensitivity to the expressive potential of atmospheric effects. About 1850, he apparently took up a concerted study of sunlit skies and clouds reminiscent of exercises by John Constable and J

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