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Eugène Delacroix: Death of Sardanapalus

Artist



Alternative names	Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
Description	French painter, drawer, aquarellist and photographer
Date of birth/death	26 April 1798	13 August 1863
Location of birth/death	Charenton-Saint-Maurice	Paris
Work period	1815 –1863
Work location	Paris, United Kingdom, France, Algeria, Morocco, Netherlands (1839), Belgium
Authority file	: Q33477 VIAF: 7389086 ISNI: 0000000120988878 ULAN: 500115509 LCCN: n79086855 NLA: 35034640 WorldCat

Title

The Death of Sardanapalus

Object type

painting

Genre

history painting

Depicted people

Sardanapalus

Date

1827

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 392 cm (12.8 ft); width: 496 cm (16.2 ft)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

Current location

Department of Paintings of the Louvre

Room 700

Accession number

RF 2346 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre)

Exhibition history

Salon of 1827, Salon Carré, 4 November 1827 / 3 November 1827 - April 1828 / 26 April 1828

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DELACROIX, Eugène

(b. 1798, Charenton-Saint-Maurice, d. 1863, Paris)

The Death of Sardanapalus 1827 Oil on canvas, 392 x 496 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris

In the Death of Sardanapalus, inspired by the work of another Romantic, the poet Byron, Delacroix painted an apotheosis of cruelty. The composition, all reds and golds, portrays the holocaust of the legendary Assyrian king, destroying his possessions before committing suicide. The insurgents are attacking his castle; all is lost; stretched out on a sumptuous bed at the summit of an immense pyre, Sardanapalus orders eunuchs and palace officers to cut the throats of his women, his pages, and even his favourite dogs and horses; none of the objects that have served his pleasure are to survive him. His women are placed on a level with his horses and dogs.

The diagonal rhythms, the fluidity of line, the brilliance of the colours and its profound sensuality make The Death of Sardanapalus a masterpiece of 19th-century art.

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Author: DELACROIX, Eugène Title: The Death of Sardanapalus Time-line: 1801-1850 School: French Form: painting

Type: historical

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