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Summary

Eugène Delacroix: The Natchez

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 Natchez

Object type

painting

Description

Depicts Natchez Native American mother and father with their newborn child on the banks of the Mississippi River. Inspired by 1801 novel "Atala" by Chateaubriand, the setting is in French Colonial Louisiana; the Natchez couple have recently escaped upriver from a massacre.^[1]

↑ MET Museum

Date

1835

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 90.2 cm (35.5 in); width: 116.8 cm (45.9 in)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	Manhattan, New York City, United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 46″ N, 73° 57′ 48″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q160236 VIAF: 126238294 ISNI: 0000000419368761 ULAN: 500125157 LCCN: n79129629 NLA: 36247933 WorldCat

Current location

Gallery 801

Accession number

1989.328

Credit line

Purchase, Gifts of George N. and Helen M. Richard and Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh and Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, by exchange, 1989

Inscriptions

Signature bottom right:

EugDelacroix

References

Source/Photographer

1. Web Gallery of Art:

Image

Info about artwork
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 110000620)

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:51, 11 April 2017	3,775 × 2,916 (4.17 MB)	Trzęsacz	Reverted to version as of 19:56, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
	16:08, 11 April 2017	3,775 × 2,916 (2.45 MB)	Pixel8tor	adjusted color
	19:56, 9 September 2014	3,775 × 2,916 (4.17 MB)	Trzęsacz	without ths black borderline, source= http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436180
	08:16, 8 April 2012	3,811 × 2,956 (3.84 MB)	Aavindraa	full
	17:48, 7 April 2006	1,025 × 781 (103 KB)	Urban~commonswiki	Eugène Delacroix, ''The Natchez''. From : http://images.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wga.hu/art/d/delacroi/2/212delac.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wga.hu/html/d/delacroi/2/212delac.html&h=781&w=1025&sz=103&tbnid=cv3y6gLqQF_BoM:&tbnh=114&tbnw=150&hl=fr&