Cromwell at Windsor Castle: Introduction
Oliver Cromwell sits in a red chair, looking towards a portrait of Charles I. Behind him, a standing man watches. The encounter in Eugène Delacroix’s Cromwell at Windsor Castle is quiet enough to resemble a pause in the day’s business: one hand rests beside papers on a table, the other supports the sitter’s face. Yet attention has moved away from those papers towards the painted king. The man who occupies the room has become absorbed by someone who can occupy it only as an image.
Delacroix painted this signed oil on canvas in 1828. Measuring just 34.8 × 27.2 cm, it compresses its drama into a small, upright rectangle. It was exhibited at the Société des Amis des Arts in Paris that year and at the Paris Salon of 1831, as number 514, alongside Liberty Leading the People. Its modest dimensions should not lead us to mistake it for a preliminary sketch: Christie’s identifies an earlier description of it as a sketch for the Salon painting as erroneous.[1]
The subject comes from chapter VIII of Sir Walter Scott’s Woodstock; or, The Cavalier, published in 1826. The standing man is Wildrake, a cavalier whose royalist allegiance makes his presence dangerous. Charles I appears within the frame on the right. Scott supplies a situation in which the living ruler, the dead king’s likeness and the concealed political opponent are brought together, each occupying a different position in the drama of looking.[2]
At a Glance
- Date1828; Salon of 1831 [1]
- MediumOil on canvas [1]
- Dimensions34.8 × 27.2 cm [1]
- Collection / recordPresent ownership unverified; Christie’s 2002 record [1]
This work across Eugène Delacroix’s career
Contents
- A ruler at rest, a gaze at work
- The wrong portrait turned towards the room
- Wildrake watches the watcher
- A small painting with a public audience
A ruler at rest, a gaze at work
Cromwell’s body spreads across the centre of the picture. His black hat and broad white collar make his head easy to locate against the darker furnishings. Below, his costume is crossed by gold ornament, and his booted legs overlap in front of the chair. One arm reaches left towards the table; the other bends upwards to support his chin. These opposed movements give his body breadth while directing our attention back to his face. He appears settled into the furniture, but the inclination of his head keeps the pose from becoming merely comfortable.
The red tablecloth and red upholstery give that seated body a substantial setting. The table fills much of the lower left, while the tall chair holds the centre. Together they suggest possession and established authority: Cromwell has somewhere to sit, somewhere to place his papers, and room to extend his limbs. The hand beside the papers retains contact with this practical world. His attention, however, has travelled across the canvas to the painted king.
At the right, Charles I’s likeness is propped upright within a conspicuous gold frame. The painted face, white collar and rich reddish clothing remain visible in the darker interior of this second picture. The frame separates the king from the room even as it gives him a strong presence within it. Cromwell has a whole body, a chair and a table; Charles has a bounded surface. Nevertheless, the composition makes that surface the destination of the central figure’s gaze.
Above them hangs a heavy green drape with gold patterning. A column base and low wooden cabinet help establish a richly furnished interior without opening it into a broad architectural prospect. The room feels enclosed around the encounter. Its fabrics, furniture and framed image supply the visible signs of rank, but the human arrangement introduces a less secure relationship between outward authority and inward composure. Cromwell can rest his body here without appearing able to put the portrait out of mind.
The wrong portrait turned towards the room
Scott’s episode begins with a practical question. Wildrake asks what the young Charles II looks like, so that he might recognise him. Cromwell turns a portrait that has been standing with its face towards the wall, expecting to show the son. Instead, he reveals the father. The first response of Scott’s Cromwell is an impulse to turn it back. He suppresses that impulse, sets the picture against the wall and withdraws to a position from which he can examine it.[2]
That sequence matters because the encounter is accidental before it becomes deliberate. Cromwell does not seek out Charles I’s likeness for a planned act of remembrance. Once confronted with it, however, he makes himself look. Scott describes the effort involved in sustaining that attention. Delacroix’s lowered head and hand against the face can be read in relation to this struggle, although the painting does not reproduce every movement described in the novel.
Indeed, the seated pose is a significant change. Scott has Cromwell rise and pace before the discovery, then stand back from the portrait; later his speech becomes forceful enough to attract an officer’s attention. Delacroix gathers the scene into a stiller configuration. The crossed legs and supported chin hold together bodily repose and mental activity. The result leaves us time to consider the distance between the sitter and the image rather than following a succession of gestures.
In the novel, Cromwell praises the endurance of the likeness, which he attributes to Van Dyck. Warfare and physical destruction cannot injure the king represented there. His speech then turns towards justification: he defends his rise and insists that public causes, rather than personal advantage, brought him into action. His dismissal of “painted shadows” sits uneasily beside the intensity with which he addresses this particular painted face.[2] Scott’s fictional speaker tries to reduce the image to an object while responding to it as though it could accuse him.
These are words and actions invented for a historical novel. They do not establish what the historical Cromwell thought when looking at a portrait, or prove a private feeling of guilt. They do give Delacroix a charged literary situation in which self-defence, recollection and admiration for a painter can coexist. Likewise, Van Dyck’s name belongs to Scott’s account of the portrait; it does not authenticate the image inside Delacroix’s canvas as a copy of a particular surviving Van Dyck.
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The standing figure changes the meaning of Cromwell’s apparent solitude. Wildrake occupies the upper left, behind the seated man, with a white collar and an ochre doublet emerging from the shadows. His face turns towards the central action. Compared with Cromwell’s spreading pose, his position is contained and withdrawn. Delacroix gives him enough visibility for us to recognise a witness without allowing him to displace the principal encounter.
Wildrake is neither Charles I’s ghost nor Charles II standing behind his father’s enemy. The Salon description, quoted by Christie’s, identifies the observer as a royalist spy who has gained access to Cromwell. That explanation ties the picture firmly to Scott’s fictional intrigue.[1] The king is present as a portrait; the man behind Cromwell is alive, politically opposed to him, and able to see a moment that Cromwell has ceased to guard.
Scott also makes Wildrake’s response unstable. At first the sight of his king’s likeness in Cromwell’s hands provokes anger. That anger gives way to fear and wonder as he observes the force of Cromwell’s emotion.[2] Knowing this complicates the standing figure’s stillness. Silence need not imply calm judgement or moral superiority. Wildrake has his own passions to contain, and his proximity to power makes watching a hazardous occupation.
The spectator outside the painting enjoys a different position again. Cromwell looks towards Charles; Wildrake observes Cromwell; we can take in all three. The portrait’s frame is fully visible to us, as is the watcher behind the chair. We therefore see the structure of an encounter that absorbs its principal participant. This unequal distribution of awareness gives the small composition much of its tension. A private response is becoming evidence for another person even while it remains difficult for us to interpret with certainty.
In Scott, Cromwell’s daughter eventually enters and leads him away, ending the confrontation. Delacroix does not include her arrival.[2] The picture holds the earlier relationship in suspension, leaving the seated figure exposed to the portrait before him and the witness behind him. Nothing in the composition resolves what Wildrake will make of the experience. The viewer is similarly left with gestures and directions of attention rather than a conclusive explanation of the mind.
A small painting with a public audience
Asher Ethan Miller discusses Cromwell at Windsor Castle within Delacroix’s exploration of looking, alongside works in which sight is withheld, redirected or unequally shared. His discussion of Milton Dictating “Paradise Lost” to His Daughters considers how other senses accompany the blind poet’s creative activity.[9] Here, the concentration is more narrowly visual: Cromwell can see, but seeing has interrupted his command of the situation. The comparison helps explain why the portrait is more than historical furnishing. Looking itself supplies the action.
The picture belonged to Édouard, duc de Fitz-James, by the 1831 Salon, according to the provenance recorded by Christie’s.[1] Miller suggests that a conversation with this first owner may have helped generate the subject.[9] That remains a possibility, rather than a documented commission. A scene centred on a royalist witness could have held particular interest for an owner identified by Christie’s as royalist. His exact response to Wildrake’s anger or Cromwell’s troubled concentration remains unknown.
The work’s exhibition history also matters to its scale. An intimate scene made for close inspection entered the public setting of the Salon. It could ask viewers to approach a political subject through a hand supporting a face, the angle of a seated body and the space between a man and a picture. Christie’s records it under number 129 in Lee Johnson’s critical catalogue.[1] Although a small work, it has a distinct identity as the exhibited painting, rather than as preparation for some larger, presumed original.
Its enduring difficulty lies in the survival of a face after the loss of the power that face once represented. Charles I cannot act within this room, but his likeness changes the behaviour of someone who can. Wildrake’s presence makes that change observable. Delacroix gives the red chair and table to the living ruler, the gold boundary to the dead king, and the shadowed margin to the witness. Between those three positions, authority becomes something watched, tested and momentarily unsettled by a painting.

Milton Dictating Paradise Lost to His Daughters, 1827–28, oil on canvas. Kunsthaus Zürich; 1988/0028. A different arrangement of attention around the blind poet. Kunsthaus Zürich, faithful reproduction via Wikimedia Commons. Image source. Public domain. Whole supplied primary image retained, including documentary/support edges; no appearance editing.
Artworks directory
Selected documented works by or associated with Eugène Delacroix, with dates, media and collection records distinguished. This is a growing research directory, not a complete catalogue. An unspecified medium appears under All media.
| Name | Date | Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Male Academy Figure: Half‑Length, Side View | c. 1818–20 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Female Academy Figure: Seated, Front View (Mademoiselle Rose) | c. 1820–23 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Two Bearded Heads, after Veronese (detail from “The Marriage at Cana”) | 1820 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Self‑Portrait as Ravenswood | c.1821 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Nereid, after Rubens, detail from “The Landing of Maria de Medici at Marseilles” | c. 1822 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Studies of a Damned Man, for “The Barque of Dante” | 1822 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Head of an Old Greek Woman | 1824 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Tasso in the Hospital of St. Anna, Ferrara | 1824 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Turk Mounting His Horse | 1824 | Aquatint Catalogue. |
| Portrait of Aspasie | About 1824 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Sketch after Goya’s “Caprichos” | c. 1822–24 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Study of Babouches | c. 1823–24 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Thales Fielding (1793–1837) | c. 1824–25 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Studies of Bindings, an Oriental Jacket, and Figures after Goya | c. 1822–26 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Study of an Oriental Vest | c. 1822–26 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Study of Greek Costumes | c. 1823–26 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Christ in the Garden of Olives (The Agony in the Garden) | 1824–26 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Reclining Female Nude: Back View | c. 1824–26 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Macbeth Consulting the Witches | 1825 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Studies of Seven Greek Coins | 1825 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Studies of Twelve Greek and Roman Coins | 1825 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Mortally Wounded Brigand Quenches His Thirst | c.1825 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Charles VI and Odette de Champdivers | About 1825 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Duke of Orléans Showing His Lover | About 1825–26 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Count Demetrius de Palatiano (1794–1849) in Suliot Costume | c. 1825–26 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi | 1826 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Combat of the Giaour and Hassan | 1826 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Justinian Drafting His Laws, sketch | 1826 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Baron Schwiter (Louis Auguste Schwiter, 1805–1889) | 1826 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Louis Auguste Schwiter (1805–1889) | 1826–30 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Death of Sardanapalus, sketch | 1826–27 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| A Lady and Her Valet | c. 1826–29 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Woman with a Parrot | 1827 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Seated Turk (possibly Paul Barroilhet, 1805–1871) | c. 1827–30 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| A Greek and a Turk in an Interior | late 1820s | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Faust (illustrated book) | 1828 | Illustrated book Catalogue. |
| Mephistopheles Flying over the City (Study for “Faust,” plate 1) | c. 1825–27 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 1: Mephistopheles Aloft | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 2: Faust in His Study | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 3: Faust and Wagner | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 4: Faust, Wagner, and the Poodle | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 5: Mephistopheles Appearing to Faust | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 6: Mephistopheles Receiving the Student | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust and Mephistopheles in the Tavern (Study for “Faust,” plate 7) | 1825/26 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 7: Mephistopheles in Auerbach’s Tavern | 1826 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, Marguerite, and Mephistopheles in the Street (Study for “Faust,” plate 8) | c. 1825–27 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 8: Faust Trying to Seduce Marguerite | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 9: Mephistopheles Introduces Himself at Martha’s House | 1827 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 10: Marguerite at the Spinning Wheel | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 11: Duel between Faust and Valentin | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 12: Mephistopheles and Faust Fleeing after the Duel | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 13: Marguerite in Church | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 14: Faust and Mephistopheles in the Harz Mountains | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 15: Marguerite’s Ghost Appearing to Faust | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 16: Faust and Mephistopheles Galloping on Walpurgis Night | 1826 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Faust, plate 17: Faust with Marguerite in Prison | 1826/27 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Wild Horse Felled by a Tiger | 1828 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Wild Horse Felled by a Tiger | 1828 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Wild Horse | 1828 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Studies of a Lion (Tours sketchbook) | 12 February 1824 or 1829 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Sketches of Tigers and Men in Sixteenth‑Century Costume | c. 1828–29 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Nineteen Studies of Heads and Skulls of Lions | c. 1828–30 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Tiger Lying at the Entrance of Its Lair | c. 1828–30 | Etching Catalogue. |
| The Murder of the Bishop of Liège | 1829 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Royal Tiger | 1829 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Lion of the Atlas Mountains | 1829–30 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother (Study of Two Tigers) | 1830 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Battle of Poitiers | 1830 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Battle of Nancy and the Death of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, January 5, 1477 | 1831 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Boissy d’Anglas at the Convention, sketch | 1831 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Interior of a Dominican Convent in Madrid (L’Amende Honorable) | 1831 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Jewish Woman of Tangier | 1832 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Portrait of Schmareck, Tanner at Tangier | 1832 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Standing Moroccan | 1832 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| A Man of Tangier | 1832 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben‑Chimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters | 1832 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Street in Meknes | 1832 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Moroccan Military Exercises | 1832 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Arab Cavalry Practicing a Charge (Fantaisie Arabe) | 1833 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| A Blacksmith | 1833 | Aquatint Catalogue. |
| Collision of Arab Horsemen | 1833/34 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Figure Study for “The Women of Algiers” | 1833/34 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Women of Algiers in Their Apartment | 1834 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Natchez | 1823–24 and 1835 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Christ on the Cross | 1835 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard | 1835 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Combat of the Giaour and Hassan | 1835 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Léon Riesener (1808–1878) | 1835 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Madame Henri François Riesener (Félicité Longrois, 1786–1847) | 1835 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Saint Sebastian Tended by the Holy Women | 1836 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Medea About to Kill Her Children, sketch | c. 1836 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Moroccan Chieftain Receiving Tribute | 1837 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Self‑Portrait in a Green Vest | c. 1837 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Medea About to Kill Her Children (Medée furieuse) | 1838 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Cleopatra and the Peasant | 1838 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard | 1839 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Startled Arabian Horse in a Landscape | c. 1835–40 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| The Shipwreck of Don Juan | 1840 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Christ on the Lake of Genesareth (Portland version) | c. 1853 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Pietà, first sketch | by 1843 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Pietà, second sketch | by 1843 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Christ on the Cross, sketch | 1845 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Christ on the Cross | 1846 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Death of Sardanapalus (Philadelphia replica) | 1844 / 1845–46 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Abduction of Rebecca | 1846 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Lamentation (Christ at the Tomb) | 1847–48 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Arab Players | 1848 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Arch of Morning Glories, study for “Basket of Flowers” | 1848/49 | Pastel Catalogue. |
| Basket of Flowers | 1848–49 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Basket of Flowers and Fruit | 1849 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Basket of Flowers | c. 1848–50 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Christ at the Column | probably 1849 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Landscape at Champrosay | possibly 1849 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Michelangelo in His Studio | About1849–50 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| View in the Forest of Sénart | c. 1849–50 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Forest View with an Oak Tree | c. 1849–50 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| The Triumph of Genius over Envy | c. 1849–51 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Jacob Struggling with the Angel | 1850 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Jacob Wrestling with the Angel | 1850 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Jacob Wrestling with the Angel | 1850 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Sunset | c. 1850 | Pastel Catalogue. |
| Apollo Slays the Python, sketch | c. 1850 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Apollo Victorious over the Serpent Python, sketch | c. 1850 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Pietà | About1850 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Agony in the Garden | 1851 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Study of the Sea | 1851(?) | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Marphise | 1852 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Sea at Dieppe | 1852 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Christ Asleep during the Tempest | c. 1853 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Saint Stephen Borne Away by His Disciples | 1853 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Christ on the Sea of Galilee | 1854 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Sea at Dieppe | probably 1854 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| A Lion and a Tiger, Fighting | c. 1854 | Drawing Catalogue. |
| Lion Hunt, sketch | 1854 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Lion Hunt (fragment) | 1855 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Lion Hunt | 1855–56 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Hilly Landscape | c. 1855 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage | 1856 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Bride of Abydos (Selim and Zuleika) | 1857 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Lamentation over the Body of Christ | 1857 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Abduction of Rebecca | 1858 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Ovid among the Scythians | 1859 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Amadis de Gaule Delivers a Damsel from Galpan’s Castle | 1859–60 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable | 1860 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Shipwreck on the Coast | 1862 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Battle of Taillebourg won by Saint Louis (Château de Versailles) | 1837 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| Christ on the Lake of Gennezaret (Christ Asleep during the Tempest) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) | About 1853 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| The Coast of Spain at Salabrena (Christie’s 1998 sale 6059, lot 123) | 19 January 1832 | Pen and ink Catalogue. |
| Crouching Tiger (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) | 1839 | Pen and ink Catalogue. |
| The Education of Achilles (J. Paul Getty Museum) | 1862 | Pastel Catalogue. |
| Fallen Warriors and a Runaway Horse (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) | 1862 | Pen and ink Catalogue. |
| George Sand's Garden at Nohant (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) | About 1842–43 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| The Giaour on Horseback (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) | 1824–26 | Pen and ink Catalogue. |
| Lion Hunt (Art Institute of Chicago) | 1860–61; signed 1861 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| Figure Studies related to Liberty Leading the People | 1830 | Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash Catalogue. |
| Chios: Head, Shoulder and Foot Studies | 1823 | Graphite Catalogue. |
| Figure Studies for the Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon | 1833–35 | Pen and iron gall ink Catalogue. |
| Four Studies of Horses | 1824–25 | Pen, ink, black wash and graphite (recto); graphite (verso) Catalogue. |
| Studies of a Horse and Rider for Heliodorus Driven from the Temple | 1849–50 | Pen and iron gall ink, graphite Catalogue. |
| Liberty Leading the People | 1830 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| Massacre at Chios | 1824 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| Death of Sardanapalus (Louvre original) | 1827 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| Barque of Dante | 1822 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Orphan Girl at the Cemetery | 1824 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (Saint-Sulpice wall painting) | Completed 1861 | Wall painting Catalogue. |
| Heliodorus Driven from the Temple (Saint-Sulpice wall painting) | Completed 1861 | Wall painting Catalogue. |
| African Pirates Abducting a Young Woman | 1852 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| An Arab Horseman at the Gallop | 1849 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains | 1863 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Moroccan Horseman Crossing a Ford | About 1850 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| A Moroccan (Arab) Saddling a Horse | 1855 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero | 1825–26 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Christopher Columbus and his Son at La Rábida | 1838 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Horse Frightened by Lightning | 1825–29 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Horses Leaving the Sea | 1860 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Tiger with a Tortoise | 1862 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Tiger | About1830 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Tiger and Snake | 1862 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Tiger Hunt | 1854 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Lion Hunt in Morocco | 1854 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Lion Rending Apart a Corpse | About1848;historical catalogue placement | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Frederic Chopin | 1838 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Portrait of George Sand | 1838 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand | 1838 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Mademoiselle Rose | About 1820 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Head of a Woman in a Red Turban | 1831; archive date | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Two Views of a Standing Indian from Calcutta | About 1823–24 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius | 1844 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople | 1840 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Medea | 1862 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Death of Laras | 1858 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Bride of Abydos | About 1852–53; dating disputed | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Bride of Lammermoor | About1826 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Cromwell at Windsor Castle | 1828 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Milton Dictated to his Daughters the Paradise Lost | 1827–28 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Tasso in the Madhouse | 1839 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Christ on the Cross | 1853 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Disciples at Emmaus | 1853 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Entombment of Christ | Nineteenth century; precise date unestablished | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Fanatics of Tangier | 1837–38 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Jewish Bride | Undated; Moroccan subject associated with the1832journey | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Jewish Wedding in Morocco | 1839; Salon1841 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Moroccan Fantasia | 1847 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| The Sultan of Morocco | 1845 | Oil painting Catalogue. |
| Bouquet of Flowers 1843 | 1843 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Bouquet of Flowers, 1849 | 1849 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Cliffs Near Dieppe | 1852–55 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| The Edge of a Wood at Nohant | c.1842/1843 | Watercolour Catalogue. |
| Still Life with Lobsters | 1826–27 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| A Corner of the Studio (attribution disputed) | 1825–1850; attribution disputed | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| Study of the Sky at Sunset | c.1849 | Pastel Catalogue. |
| Self-Portrait, about 1840 | c.1840 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1849) | 1849 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| Susanna and the Elders | 1841 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| The Education of Achilles (Drawing) | c.1844 | Graphite Catalogue. |
| Attila the Hun | Completed 1847 | Mural detail Catalogue. |
| The Italian Theatre | 1821 | Lithograph Catalogue. |
| A Turkish Man on a Grey Horse | Undated | Not specified Catalogue. |
| Study for The Massacre at Chios | About 1823–24 | Graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper Catalogue. |
| The Prisoner of Chillon | 1834; Salon of 1835 | Oil on canvas Catalogue. |
| Two Knights Fighting in a Landscape | Second quarter of the nineteenth century; precise date uncertain | Oil on canvas; possible later completion Catalogue. |
Discussion
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References
- Christie’s, “Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863), Cromwell at Windsor Castle”, 19th Century European Art Including Ottomans & Orientalists, live auction 6562, lot 134, 2002; object details, provenance, literature, exhibition history and lot essay, including the quoted Salon description. Christie’s lot record. Source language: English, with a French Salon quotation. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock; or, The Cavalier (first published 1826), chapter VIII, portrait-discovery and contemplation episode through the daughter’s intervention; 1855 text reproduced by Project Gutenberg, eBook 9785. Project Gutenberg text. Source language: English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The Giaour on Horseback”, Eugène Delacroix, 1824–26, accession 2015.713.2, collection record and recto image. Source language: English. Accessed 27 October 2026. View source.
- Christie’s, Cromwell at Windsor Castle,1828,Johnson129;2002auction record/lotessay and1831Salon listing. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Ministère de la Culture, base Joconde, Bataille de Taillebourg. 21 juillet 1242, notice 000PE005883; collection du château de Versailles, MV 2676 / INV 3822 / LP 2780. French. Accessed 27 October 2026. View source.
- Asher Miller, compiler, “Checklist,” entries 1–145, in Sébastien Allard and Côme Fabre, Delacroix. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018, pp. 275–297. Basic title, date and medium metadata consulted; not a complete catalogue of the artist’s works. Source language: English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Eugène Delacroix: Christ Asleep during the Tempest,” collection record, accession 29.100.131, object details and introductory commentary. Source language: English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- George R. Goldner and Lee Hendrix, with Kelly Pask, European Drawings 2: Catalogue of the Collections. Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992, entry 56, p. 140; colour plate 8. Source language: English. Accessed 27 October 2026. View source.
- Asher Ethan Miller, “The Act of Looking”, in Sébastien Allard and Côme Fabre, Delacroix, exhibition catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2018, printed p. 231 (PDF p. 247), discussion of Milton, Cromwell, Wildrake and the possible Fitz-James connection. Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue. Source language: English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Asher Ethan Miller, “Eugène Delacroix, Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1853 or earlier,” French Paintings and Pastels, 1600–1945, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2021. Narrative and notes, including the revised Portland chronology; Glynnis Napier Stevenson documentation note 1 also consulted. Source language: English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Christie’s, “The Coast of Spain at Salabrena”, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Impressionist & 19th Century Art, Pt. II, sale 6059, lot 123, 1998. Object details, sale-room notice and lot essay; unpaginated. Source language: English; artist’s inscription in French. Accessed 27 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Eugène Delacroix: Crouching Tiger”, collection record for accession 2013.1135.5, 1839; object details and curatorial commentary, unpaginated. Source language: English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Fallen Warriors and a Runaway Horse”, collection record, object details, curatorial commentary and collection image; unpaginated. Source language: English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “George Sand’s Garden at Nohant,” Eugène Delacroix, collection record, accession 22.27.4; object details and curatorial overview. Source language: English. Accessed 27 October 2026. View source.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “Lion Hunt”, collection record, especially “About this artwork”, object information, inscriptions and provenance; unpaginated. Source language: English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Figure Studies related to Liberty Leading the People, 1830, 2013.1135.12. Visible object metadata and short commentary. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Head, Shoulder, and Foot, Studies for Scenes from the Chios Massacres, 1823, 2013.1135.22. Visible object metadata and commentary. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Figure Studies for the Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon, 1833–35, 2013.1135.24. Visible metadata and commentary. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Four Studies of Horses, 1824–25, 2024.591.65. Recto and verso metadata and commentary. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Studies of a Horse and Rider for Heliodorus Driven from the Temple, 1849–50, 2024.591.78. Visible metadata and commentary. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Le 28 juillet 1830. La Liberté guidant le peuple, RF 129, 1830. Object details and historical record. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Scènes des massacres de Scio, INV 3823, 1824. Object details and historical record. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Mort de Sardanapale, RF 2346, 1827. Object details and historical record. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Death of Sardanapalus, object 82626, 1986-26-17, dated 1844. Heading and short commentary; dating differs from the 2018 catalogue. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Dante et Virgile, dit aussi La barque de Dante, INV 3820, 1822; object metadata and history. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Jeune orpheline au cimetière, RF 1652, 1824; object metadata and history. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi, Bx E 439, 1826; collection record and audio transcript. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Ville de Paris, Retrouvez les chefs d’œuvres de Delacroix à la chapelle des Saints-Anges de Saint-Sulpice, updated 30 November 2016; chapel commission/completion and material history. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Pirates africains enlevant une jeune femme, RF 1965 9, 1852; object record, interpretation and provenance. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Qatar Museums, Tales of a Connected World: About the Galleries; Arab Horseman at the Gallop, 1849, Lusail Museum Collection, and Delacroix’s Gaze. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- National Gallery of Art, Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains, 1863, 1966.12.1; object metadata, interpretation and provenance. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- J. Paul Getty Museum, Moroccan Horseman Crossing a Ford, about 1850, 2001.42; Getty-authored commentary and metadata on Google Arts & Culture. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- State Hermitage Museum, Moroccan Saddling a Horse, 1855, ГЭ-3852; complete indexed Russian owner text and object fields. Russian. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Paris Musées / Petit Palais, Le Combat du Giaour et du Pacha,1835,PDUT1162; object record and interpretation. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan,1826; owner-authored Google Arts & Culture object record. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Ackland Art Museum, Cleopatra and the Peasant,1838,59.15.1; indexed owner object fields. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Wallace Collection, The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero,1825–26,P282; object record and description. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- National Gallery of Art, Christopher Columbus and His Son at La Rábida,1838,1963.10.127; object record and provenance. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée d’Orsay, Chevaux arabes se battant dans une écurie,1860,RF1988; indexed owner object fields. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest / Zsuzsa Gonda, Horse Frightened by Lightning,1825–29,D_1935-2698; owner-authored Google Arts & Culture record and essay. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Phillips Collection, Horses Coming Out of the Sea,1860,0486; collection record and commentary. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Jeune Tigre jouant avec sa mère,1830,RF1943; full object record and history. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Christie’s, Tigre jouant avec une tortue,1862; Rockefeller2018 sale16718 lot3, record and essay. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- National Gallery of Art, Tiger, about1830,1943.3.3375; indexed owner record, inscription and visual description. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- National Gallery of Art, Tiger and Snake,1862,2014.136.30; indexed owner record, provenance and visual description. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée d’Orsay, Chasse au tigre,1854,RF1814; indexed owner record and commentary. French/English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- State Hermitage Museum, Lion Hunt in Morocco,1854,3853; official guide2014,entry195,pp248–249. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Alfred Robaut / Ernest Chesneau, L’Œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix,1885,p279,entry1054,watercolour Lion déchirant un cadavre. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Frédéric Chopin, 1838, RF 1717; current owner record of the surviving fragment. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Museum Ordrupgaard, George Sand, 1838, 280WH; current owner dimensions/materials/signature record. Danish. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Preparatory study for Chopin and George Sand, circa 1838, RF 9357; owner record and commentary. French/English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Portrait de Léon Riesener, 1835, RF 1960 58; current owner metadata, label transcription and commentary. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The National Gallery, London, Louis-Auguste Schwiter, 1826–30, NG 3286; current owner record and in-depth commentary. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Nu assis, dit Mademoiselle Rose, about 1820, RF 1942 14; complete owner object record. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée Fabre, Étude d’après le modèle Aspasie, about 1824, 868.1.36; current owner fields and short commentary. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musées d’Orléans, Head of an Old Greek Woman, study for Chios,1824,96.2.1; full owner record and commentary. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Art Fund, Head of a Woman in Red Turban By Lamplight; archive date1831, rounded dimensions and1962acquisition support; archive cautions record notupdated. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- National Gallery of Art, Two Studies of a Standing Indian from Calcutta,c1823/1824,2006.128.18; current owner record and visual description. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- National Gallery of Art, Two Studies of an Indian from Calcutta,Seated and Standing,c1823/1824,2006.128.19; separate comparative canvas,current owner record. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, The Assassination of the Bishop of Liège,1829,RF1961 13; complete owner fields and selected provenance. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, The Battle of Nancy, signed1831,177; current object fields, narrative and acquisition history. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius,1844,A2928; complete owner record and interpretation. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Mar Borobia, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, The Duke of Orléans Showing His Lover,about1825–26,127(1977.19); complete object record and essay. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople,1840,INV3821/LP4674; current owner description, commission and provenance. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Medea,1862,RF1402; later variant of the1838Lilleoriginal,current object record. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, The Shipwreck of Don Juan,1840,RF359; current owner fields and1883gift record. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, The Bride of Abydos,RF1398; current dimensions/bequest and broad date differing from the2018catalogue. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Medea About to Kill Her Children,1838,P542; the earlier large original,current owner record. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Kimbell Art Museum, Selim and Zuleika,1857,AP1986.04; separate final version, complete indexed owner narrative/provenance. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Art Gallery of Ontario, The Bride of Lammermoor,about1826,80/83; graphite,watercolour andgouache,collection/provenance record. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée Fabre, Michelangelo in His Studio,1850,868.1.40;current object fields andinterpretive notice. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Kunsthaus Zürich, Milton Dictating Paradise Lost to His Daughters,1827–28,1988/0028;current ownerPDF. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz, Tasso in the Madhouse,1839,oil60×50cm;owner object record. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The National Gallery, London, Christ on the Cross,1853,NG6433;oil73.5×59.7cm,currentobjectrecord. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Walters Art Museum, Christ on the Sea of Galilee,1854,37.186;oil59.8×73.3cm,currentobjectrecord. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Brooklyn Museum, The Disciples at Emmaus,1853,50.106;oil55.2×47cm,currentobjectrecord. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- INHA / Joconde, La Mise au tombeau,copyafterTitian,LyonB286;oil40×55.5cm,nineteenthcentury,currentobjectfields. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Pietà,about1850,NG.M.01179;oil35.6×27cm,currentobjectrecord. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Convulsionists of Tangier,1837–38,73.42.3;oil95.57×128.59cm,owner-published collection data. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Mariée juive à Tanger,undated,RF4614Recto;watercolour/graphite28.5×23.2cm,currentobjectrecord. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Noce juive dans le Maroc,1839,INV3825/LP4737;oil105×140.5cm,Salon1841,currentobjectrecord. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Marokkanische Soldaten bei einer Gefechtsübung,1847,SOR1936.3;oil66×82cm,Römerholz,currentobjectrecord. German. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, Moulay Abd-er-Rahman,sultan du Maroc,1845,2004 1 99;oil384×344cm,currentobjectrecord. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- French Ministry of Culture / Musée Fabre, Bouquet de fleurs, 1843, inventory 876.3.101; black pencil and watercolour, 20.5 × 26.4 cm. Current Joconde collection record. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Bouquet de fleurs, 1849, RF 31719, Recto; watercolour, gouache and pastel over black pencil on two joined sheets of grey paper, 65 × 65.4 cm. Current collection record. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée Marmottan Monet, Monet collectionneur – Chefs-d’œuvre de sa collection privée, 2017 press dossier, printed p.24 (PDF p.23). Cliffs near Dieppe, 1852–55, watercolour, 20 × 30.7 cm; reproduction and collection history. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Edge of a Wood at Nohant, c.1842/1843, accession 1985.16.2; watercolour, 15.5 × 20.5 cm. Current collection record. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, La mer vue des hauteurs de Dieppe, RF 1979-46; oil on cardboard glued to wood, 36 × 52 cm. Current collection record; 1852 dating follows the 2018 Delacroix catalogue, no.128. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Nature morte au homard, RF1661,1826–27, oil on canvas80.5×106.5cm. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Coin d’atelier. Le poêle, RF2058,1825–1850,oil51×43.4cm; doubtful signature and disputed attribution. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Etude de ciel au soleil couchant, RF3706 Recto,c1849,pastel on grey paper19.2×23.8cm. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Ministero della Cultura / Gallerie degli Uffizi, Autoritratto di Delacroix,0900099717,Inv1890no3914,c1840,oil66×54cm; complete six-page SIGEC record. Italian. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre / Musée national Eugène-Delacroix, Portrait de Delacroix en Hamlet, formerly Ravenswood,MD2021-2/RF1953-38,c1821,oil41×33cm. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée Fabre, Femmes d’Alger dans leur intérieur, 1849, 868.1.38, oil on canvas, 85 × 112 cm. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Femme caressant un perroquet, 1827, B 566, oil on canvas, 24.8 × 33 cm. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Suzanne et les vieillards, 1841, P 986, oil on canvas, 27 × 35.5 cm. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Kunstmuseum Basel, Ein sterbender Brigant trinkt an einer Quelle, c.1825, 1726, oil on canvas, 32.7 × 40.8 cm. German. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Education of Achilles, c.1844, 2014.732.3, graphite, 23.6 × 29.7 cm. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Assemblée nationale, Attila and His Hordes Overrun Italy and the Arts, War hemicycle detail, library of the Palais Bourbon, completed 1847, oil and wax on plaster. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Théâtre Italien, 13 August 1821, 2004.198, lithograph, sheet 25.6 × 18.6 cm. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Macbeth Consulting the Witches, 1825, 22.63.19, lithograph, third state of five. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Hamlet et Horatio au cimetière, 1839, RF 1942, oil on canvas, 82 × 65 cm. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- National Gallery, London, Ovid among the Scythians, 1859, NG6262, oil on canvas, 87.6 × 130.2 cm. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Abduction of Rebecca, Eugène Louis Lami, 1873, 88.341. Comparative attribution correction; not a Delacroix work. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, 2018 exhibition overview. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- New York Public Library, Print Collection: Print Glossary, definitions of impression, state, edition and processes. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, CAMEO, Lithograph, planographic printing glossary. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée Eugène-Delacroix, Delacroix and colour, 5 July 2022, collection article. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Eugène Delacroix: artist biography. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Eugène Delacroix / Philippe Burty, editor, Lettres (1815–1863), Paris: A. Quantin, 1878, pp. 120–121; the published extract of 25 January 1832 and opening of 8 February. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Wall Decorated in Spanish Tiles, 1832, 2013.1135.16; collection record. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, Mephistopheles in the Air, 1828, 1994.60.13; first state of five. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hamlet Sees the Ghost of His Father on the Terrace, 1843, 22.56.7; first state of five. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Eugène Delacroix / Paul Flat and René Piot, editors, Journal, 22 June 1863; Paris: Plon, 1893, volume III, page 438. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Musée du Louvre, Apollo Slays Python, 1850–51; INV 3818. Collection record. French. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Sotheby’s, A Turkish Man on a Grey Horse, catalogued under Eugène Delacroix; sale N07716, 2001, lot 20. English. Accessed 28 October 2026. View source.
- Splash image, Cromwell at Windsor Castle, 1828, oil on canvas. Recorded at Christie’s in 2002; present ownership has not been established. Wikimedia Commons; source Christie’s, uploaded by Maltaper. Image source. CC BY-SA 4.0. Whole supplied primary image retained, including documentary/support edges; no appearance editing.


