Eugène Delacroix, 1823 - The Natchez - fine art print

What does the website of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art say about the work of art from the painter Eugène Delacroix? (© Copyright - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org)

In 1823, Delacroix began to paint this scene from Chateaubriand’s widely read Romantic novel Atala, which narrates the fate of the Natchez people following attacks by French forces in the 1730s. After putting the canvas aside for about a decade, he finally completed the picture for the Paris Salon of 1835. In the catalogue, Delacroix provided this explanatory note: "Fleeing the massacre of their tribe, two young savages traveled up the Mississippi River. During the voyage, the woman was taken by pain of labor. The moment is that when the father holds the newborn in his hands, and both regard him tenderly."

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The Natchez was by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. The 190 years old version of the painting measures the size: 35 1/2 x 46 in (90,2 x 116,8 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the French painter as the medium of the masterpiece. Furthermore, this piece of art is in the the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Gifts of George N. and Helen M. Richard and Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh and Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, by exchange, 1989 (public domain license). : Purchase, Gifts of George N. and Helen M. Richard and Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh and Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, by exchange, 1989. In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format and has an image ratio of 4 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% longer than the width. Eugène Delacroix was a male painter, whose style can mainly be attributed to Romanticism. The French painter lived for 65 years - born in the year 1798 in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne and passed away in 1863.

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