Weislingen Held Prisoner by Goetz
Eugène Delacroix
1821
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white China paper laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 28 × 20.8 cm (11 1/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 56.5 × 40 cm (22 1/4 × 15 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
61119
About the Artist
Eugène Delacroix · 1798–1863
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) stands as the defining figure of French Romanticism and a pivotal bridge to modernism. Born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice near Paris, he came from distinguished lineage—his mother descended from the prestigious Oeben-Riesener furniture dynasty, while persistent speculation suggested the statesman Talleyrand may have been his biological father, a theory supported by physic...