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. Eugène Delacroix. he made the journey,Decamps had not returned from his caravanexpedition, and Marilhat had not the influence of the East was not confinedonly to his pictures of oriental scenes such asLes Femmes dAlger, La Noce Juive au Maroc,Les Convulsionnaires de Tanger, Le Sultan Ahd-ehr-Rhaman, &c ; it made itself felt in allhis large compositions, whatever their subject;a new scheme of colour, a new light, henceforthpervade them. Before his visit to MoroccoDelacroix was under the influence of Rubens,of Veronese, of Gros, and of the modern paintersof the English school. The
. Eugène Delacroix. he made the journey,Decamps had not returned from his caravanexpedition, and Marilhat had not the influence of the East was not confinedonly to his pictures of oriental scenes such asLes Femmes dAlger, La Noce Juive au Maroc,Les Convulsionnaires de Tanger, Le Sultan Ahd-ehr-Rhaman, &c ; it made itself felt in allhis large compositions, whatever their subject;a new scheme of colour, a new light, henceforthpervade them. Before his visit to MoroccoDelacroix was under the influence of Rubens,of Veronese, of Gros, and of the modern paintersof the English school. The Massacre de Scionot only resembles the Pestiferes de Jaffain its general expression, but also in its colour-ing, for though Delacroixs colour is subtlerand finer, it is, undoubtedly, inspired by Marino Faliero the yellow robes of themagnificoes are of the same type as Rubensyellows, while the white satins and the touchesof red and green recall Veronese. Sardana-palus and VEvique de Liege were conceived72.
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