This monograph accompanies the exhibition at the Met.  The essays are biography as well as critiques.  The illustrations included are beautifully reproduced.  The essays also include a lot of history and influences on Delacroix.  I really enjoy reading about the stories behind the paintings and seeing the paintings evolve from sketches.  This beautiful book will make a wonderful gift.  Enjoy

Wonderful collection of paintings and interesting essays about Eugène Delacroix.

This book is full of beautiful works of Delacroix, that are a real pleasure to discover, while essays describe how Delacroix become the great Romantic painter that we know today. The most fascinating part of the book was an essay titled “Fame Is Not an Empty Word”: 1822-32. It was very interesting to learn how Delacroix started his career as a painter, how he fought for recognition of his works and how he experimented with colours, technic, composition and addition of live models. The essay was enriched by excerpts from journals written by the young Delacroix. His passion and ambition could set pages of the journals alight. How touching that at the beginning he thought himself fickle, weak of character and worked hard to become a better man. Life brought him in equal part passion and disappointment. 

The career of Delacroix as a painter started with a bang with his paintings shown at the Salons of the 1820s. Delacroix knew how to inflame imagination and dazzle his audience by brilliance of colours and original themes. His works were immediately admired by critics and the public. He achieved great fame and recognition. I read with interest about the creation of his early works, that I know well. My favourite masterpiece of Delacroix is “The Death of Sardanapalus” painted 1826-27 and I enjoyed reading about its creation and reception. It is funny to think that such a masterpiece was criticised and frowned upon. Critics reacted with indignation and the painting was a huge scandal.       

This book will be a great treat for every fan of art, Romanticism and Delacroix in particular. Essays are interesting and pictures in the book are beautiful and show the best works of Delacroix.

I received "Delacroix" from the publisher via NetGalley. I would like to thank the authors and the publisher for providing me with the advance reader copy of the book.

Delacroix is one of the masters of his time.
    If I can't see his works then this book would take you into every museum in the world. Vivid, beautiful details of his work through the years of his life, with fabulous info on his life.  A few extras are other artist's paintings during the 1840s-1850s. It's a plus for any art major to enthusiast. A wonderful addition to any library and coffee table. Thank you for NetGalley for a copy; I loved it!

Absolutely amazing in depth book about Delacroix.  I learned a lot and I think this book is very beneficial to art history.  I have been to a few art museums and have taken a lot of art history classes over the years and most touch on the basics of early impressionism when there is a lot more to learn than the major masters taught in all programs.  I love the detail of Delacroix life and the beautiful art included in the book.

Absolutely beautiful and very enjoyable book, filled with a big number of artworks of the painter, many of them I've seen the first time. The text is very informative and entertaining, so if you like Delacroix, want to know him better and have time to read more than 300 pages, this volume is highly recommended.

Flipping through the plates, it is a beautiful book and a very thorough account of the art of Delacroix. And I can't put it down.  It is a little sad to have it digitally as some of the paintings spanning two pages are split.