Collection: Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix painted like the world was on fire — because often, in his canvases, it was. The undisputed leader of French Romanticism in the 19th century, Delacroix rejected the cool rationalism of Neoclassicism in favor of raw emotion, violent movement, and color so bold it made the French Academy deeply uncomfortable and influenced virtually every major painter who came after him. Liberty Leading the People, painted in 1830 to commemorate the July Revolution, remains one of the most electrifying political images in art history — a bare-breasted Liberty surging forward over fallen bodies, tricolor raised, with a ferocity that still stops people cold nearly two centuries later. Delacroix drew from history, mythology, literature, and his travels through North Africa, bringing an exotic intensity to his subjects that expanded what European painting thought it was allowed to depict. Baudelaire called him the last great artist of the Renaissance and the first truly modern one. Cézanne said he was the painter he most admired. A Delacroix canvas brings drama, passion, and historical weight to any living room, study, or hallway that wants art with something real to say. Browse our full collection and find the masterpiece that moves you.