|
Date : 1852
Sizes : 56 cm x 46 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
| Item 7 on 15
European Painting
Painting
Area related
France
|  |  | |
| Description |  |
Delacroix was the protagonist of French Romantic painting. Influenced by Rubens and Venetian masters, he developed a painting style of luminous colors and dynamic movement. In this work, however, he seems to display another aspect of his art, depicting an intimate and quiet scene like a musical nocturn. The subject is the Virgin being taught to read the Old Testament by her mother St. Anne. He had painted a larger canvas of the same subject ten years before, using Georges Sand's farm wife and her daughter as models.
| More pictures | |
| Item(s) related | |
| Related article(s) | |
|
