. Eugène Delacroix. Hamlet was alwaysa favourite subject with Delacroix, and hedrew from it innumerable easel-pictures aswell as this series of lithographs. No one,says George Sand in a letter to TheophileSUvestre, no one has felt more than he thepain and pathos of Hamlet. No more poeticlight has ever been shed round this hero ofdoubt and irony, who yet before his ecstasywas the glass of fashion and the mould ofform. Some disappointed enthusiasts haveremarked with surprise the contrast betweenDelacroix the creator and Delacroix theillustrator, between the fiery colourist andthe delicate criti
. Eugène Delacroix. Hamlet was alwaysa favourite subject with Delacroix, and hedrew from it innumerable easel-pictures aswell as this series of lithographs. No one,says George Sand in a letter to TheophileSUvestre, no one has felt more than he thepain and pathos of Hamlet. No more poeticlight has ever been shed round this hero ofdoubt and irony, who yet before his ecstasywas the glass of fashion and the mould ofform. Some disappointed enthusiasts haveremarked with surprise the contrast betweenDelacroix the creator and Delacroix theillustrator, between the fiery colourist andthe delicate critic, between the admirerof Rubens and the worshipper of Delacroix is more powerful and morefortunate than those who cry down one of thesegreat men in order to exalt the other; he isable, with the manifold sides of his in-telligence, to enjoy equally the diverse facesof Beauty. In 1829 Delacroix executed a small picture,UAssassinat de VEvique de Lihge, for the Dukeof Orleans, whose advent to the throne as60. fa O w B?<HO
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