Figure Studies for the Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon
Eugène Delacroix French
Not on view
For Delacroix’s first state commission for a major decorative scheme, a mural program for the Salon du Roi in the Palais Bourbon (seat of the French National Assembly) in Paris, he devised a plan based on four "life-forces" of the state: Justice, Agriculture, Industry, and War. Generating ideas to fill the space required prolific drawing. On this sheet, the artist invented with fluid pen strokes figures entangled in combat, full of torque and energy, as potential personifications of war.
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