'Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art' at the National Gallery

Eugene Delacroix was a revolutionary painter and pioneer of French Romanticism who covered all human emotion in his art. A champion of the avant-garde, Delacroix was a painter of literary, biblical and historical scenes, of flowers, love, violence and war.
While not the most fashionable of 19th century French artists today, Delacroix was a key figure for his contemporaries including Courbet and Gericault and had a profound influence on later artists, such as Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse and Kandinsky, all of whom are included in the exhibition.
Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, National Gallery
Opens on 17th February and runs until 22nd May