Eugène Delacroix, 1835 - Mrs. Henri François Riesener (Longrois Bliss, 1786-1847) - fine art print

Original information about the artwork by the museum's website (© - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Delacroix rarely portrayed anyone other than his closest family and friends. His affection for Madame Riesener, an aunt by marriage, is expressed through the frank tenderness of this portrait. She was once known for her beauty: some thirty years before the date of this portrait she served as a lady-in-waiting to empress Josephine, and having caught Napoleon’s eye, engaged in a brief liaison with him. After she died, Delacroix wrote to George Sand, "each of the beings necessary to our existence who disappears, takes away with him a whole world of feelings that no other relationship can revive."

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Interesting facts about the more than 180 years old painting

The over 180 year-old piece of art was created by the romanticist master Eugène Delacroix in 1835. The over 180 year old original had the following size: 29 1/4 x 23 3/4 in (74,3 x 60,3 cm) and was painted on the medium oil on canvas. Nowadays, the piece of art is part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. We are glad to reference that this artpiece, which is in the public domain is included - courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1994. Besides, the artwork has the following creditline: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1994. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which implies that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Eugène Delacroix was a male painter of French nationality, whose art style was mainly Romanticism. The French painter lived for a total of 65 years, born in the year 1798 in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne and died in the year 1863 in Paris.

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