Paris’ charming Eugène-Delacroix Museum is celebrating its newly renovated garden with an exhibition dedicated to the Romantic artist’s floral works, bringing flowers even to those visiting the French capital in the winter.
Eugène Delacroix: Winter Flowers, on show until 18 March, unites the French master’s flower-themed paintings from the 19th Century with contemporary sculptures from French Jean-Michel Othoniel and Belgian Johan Creten in the artist’s enchanting former Left Bank residence and studios.
For the first time, 23 of Delacroix’s major flower paintings and watercolours have been brought together from museums throughout France and the world, which, alongside the especially conceived floral pieces by Creten and Othoiel, explores the perennial inspiration of flowers over the centuries.
Delacroix used the traditional genre of flower painting throughout his career to examine form and colour, and both his small studies of delicate irises and jasmine as well as large oil paintings of carefully composed floral still lives are on show.
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