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Louis Antoine Léon Riesener
(21st Jan, 1808 - 25th May, 1878)
Portrait d'Eugène Delacroix de face, en buste, 1842
1842
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / René-Gabriel Ojéda
musée d'Orsay
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/
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Keywords:
Eugène Delacroix
portrait of a man
personnalité des Beaux-Arts
contemporary costume
painter (in action)
elegance
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About the artwork
Title:
Portrait d'Eugène Delacroix de face, en buste, 1842
Periods:
19th century
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
XIXth century
Techniques:
daguerreotype
Dimensions:
60 x 43
Inventory number:
PHO1995-30
Detail:
Portrait fait à Frépillon, propriété des Riesener. Eugène Delacroix écrit dans sa correspondance le 12 mars 1842, qu'il se fait daguerréotyper par son cousin le peintre Léon Riesener.
Location:
musée d'Orsay
About the author(s)
Author:
Louis Antoine Léon Riesener
Born:
21st Jan, 1808
Dead:
25th May, 1878
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Louis Antoine Léon Riesener
(21 January 1808 in Paris – 25 May 1878 in Paris) was a French Romantic painter. Enchanted by the play of light and reflections which transformed the appearance of matter, Riesener began a new aesthetic that made him one of the precursors of impressionism. A passionate colourist, he researched all the nuances of colour and studied the techniques of ancient Greece and the Renaissance, including Titian, Veronese and Corregio. Impressed by his research into colour, he…
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