Delacroix's atelier...
12:25 p.m.
09/17/18 - In front of Place Furstenberg, and a few blocks from St Germain des Prés métro station, you'll find the Musée Eugène Delacroix. The house is quite small and, in the garden, it's the artist's atelier, now undergoing a restoration process. However, every visitor tries the door knob, in spite of the signs, just to feel a connection with something the artist used to touch.
Delacroix moved to this small apartment in 1857, because it was near the church of Saint Sulpice, where he was commissioned a chapel. He died there in 1863 and in 1971 the property became a museum.
The drawings on display are example of the work method of the artist, his studies on Nature and human figure and copies of the great Masters, such as Raffaelo and Rubens. There are also a few paintings, such as "Mary Magdalene on the Desert" (1845), an oil on canvas of the face of the Saint, mysterious and with no halo.
Madeleine au désert, by Eugène Delacroix (1845)
Technique: oil on canvas
"Roméo et Juliette au sombeau des Capulet" (1844), which also belongs to this collection, is currently on loan at the Met in New York, for the Delacroix exhibition going on right now. But you can also see another religious painting, "The Education of the Virgin", which depicts an episode of Mary's life, in which she is being shown a book by a peasant woman.
L’Éducation de la Vierge, by Eugène Delacroix (1842)
Technique: oil on canvas
Clearly this is not the place to fully grasp the work of Delacroix, but it's an intimate space that houses the creative spirit of the artist.
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