. Eugène Delacroix. and action like the littleArab in the Massacre de Scio, to be divinelymajestic like the angels horse in Heliodorus,or terrible, like the lion that rushes to defendthe prophet in the picture of Daniel in theLions Den. After Les Croises Delacroix appears to havebecome more and more taken up by his decora-tive work, and to have produced fewer picturesof importance. Amongst others we may quoteThe Sultan of Morocco and his Guard (paintedin 1845, now in the Toulouse picture gallery),a picture which called forth the most eloquentpraise from Baudelaire; UEnUvement deRebecca (1846)
. Eugène Delacroix. and action like the littleArab in the Massacre de Scio, to be divinelymajestic like the angels horse in Heliodorus,or terrible, like the lion that rushes to defendthe prophet in the picture of Daniel in theLions Den. After Les Croises Delacroix appears to havebecome more and more taken up by his decora-tive work, and to have produced fewer picturesof importance. Amongst others we may quoteThe Sultan of Morocco and his Guard (paintedin 1845, now in the Toulouse picture gallery),a picture which called forth the most eloquentpraise from Baudelaire; UEnUvement deRebecca (1846) ; Mise au tomheau (1846),ranked by Delacroix himself among his bestworks; Daniel dans la fosse aux lions (1849),now in the Montpellier picture gallery ; (1853), in the Arras picture gallery ;a large Lion Hunt (1854), in the BordeauxGallery; Les deux Foscari (1855). In thissame year of 1855 Delacroix exhibited at thegreat Exhibition of Paris a magnificent seriesof thirty-five pictures, painted during the90. LE SULTAN DU MAEOC ET SA GAEDE To face p. 90
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