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The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, after Delacroix
Edgar Degas French
After Eugène Delacroix French
Not on view
After returning to Paris from Italy in the spring of 1859, Degas began an enthusiastic campaign of copying works by Eugène Delacroix, the esteemed Romantic painter of the preceding generation. In addition to sketching from pictures on view in exhibitions and from public murals in Paris, Degas ventured to Versailles to study the monumental Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1840), which depicts an episode of religious warfare from the thirteenth century. At the time, Degas was struggling to conceive his own grand history paintings; although he ultimately turned away from such subject matter, his study of Delacroix would have a lasting effect on his approach to color.
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