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Landscape with Rocks, Augerville

1854
Not on view
This vigorous painting is based on a drawing Delacroix made in 1854, during a weeklong visit to the country estate of a cousin at Augerville, about fifty miles south of Paris. Referring to the drawing in his diary entry of May 27, the artist mentioned making "sketches of the fantastic figures in the rocks," and appended a favorite phrase: "Neglect nothing at all which could make you great." He probably made the painting after he returned to Paris.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Landscape with Rocks, Augerville
  • Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris)
  • Date: 1854
  • Medium: Oil on cardboard
  • Dimensions: 11 1/4 x 14 3/8 in. (28.6 x 36.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009
  • Object Number: 2009.400.38
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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