Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), the leading painter of French Romanticism, filled countless sheets with rapid pen and pencil studies — figures, animals, and compositional ideas — as working notes for his finished paintings. This sheet of sketches captures that restless, exploratory habit of mind, showing the artist testing poses and gestures with quick, expressive lines rather than presenting a single finished scene. Sketches like this offer a rare window into Delacroix's creative process, prized by scholars for revealing how his celebrated canvases took shape.
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