Orphan Girl at the Cemetery: Introduction
A young woman sits with one hand resting across her lap, but her attention has gone elsewhere. Her head turns sharply towards the right of the picture; her eyes lift further still. The parted lips make the movement feel unfinished, as though looking might be about to become speech. In Eugène Delacroix’s Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, this discrepancy between a settled body and an alert face supplies the action. There is no visible encounter to explain it. The painting brings us close enough to notice her response while keeping its cause beyond our sight.
Painted in 1824, the work is an oil on canvas measuring 65.5 × 55 cm, now in the Musée du Louvre as RF 1652. The museum calls it Jeune orpheline au cimetière, but records its appearance at the Salon of 1824 under the neutral title Étude, or Study, catalogue number 451.[1] Those two titles offer different ways into the picture. One proposes a bereaved person in a particular place; the other leaves the relationship between the figure and any larger story open. Looking closely means allowing the expression to hold our attention before deciding what it must mean.
At a Glance
- Date1824 [1]
- MediumOil on canvas [1]
- Dimensions65.5 × 55 cm [1]
- Collection / recordMusée du Louvre; RF 1652 [1]
This work across Eugène Delacroix’s career
Contents
- A turn that unsettles the seated figure
- Cloth, exposed shoulder and the space around her
- What the cemetery tells us
- A possible connection with Chios
- An appeal without an answer
- Annotated details
A turn that unsettles the seated figure
The girl occupies most of the canvas. Her folded clothing reaches the lower edge, while her dark hair stands out against the sky above. The close framing leaves little room for an intervening foreground: we encounter her at once, without following a path through the cemetery. Yet she does not acknowledge our presence. Her eyes look past the right edge, establishing a direction that we can follow only as far as the frame.
Her head is turned enough to reveal the ear and the dark mass of hair gathered behind it, but the face retains depth. The nearer cheek catches the light; the far side narrows towards the nose and mouth. The eyes are especially conspicuous because their upward angle cuts across the more nearly horizontal stretch of landscape. That small change of direction gives the gaze an urgency which the quiet background cannot resolve.
The neck makes the effort of turning visible. Its slant links the lifted chin to the exposed upper chest, while a shadow beneath the jaw separates head from shoulder. This is more than a face placed above a costume. Head, neck and shoulders do not all point in the same direction, and their disagreement suggests a body caught during a movement. We can read the pose as an interruption without knowing what has interrupted her.
At the bottom left, the resting hand supplies a different rhythm. It lies across the fabric rather than rising towards the face or reaching towards the object of attention. Its fingers do not repeat the agitation we might expect from the upward look. This matters because it prevents the whole figure from becoming one emphatic gesture of distress. Part of her remains at rest. The hand seems to belong to the moment before the turn, although the painting gives us no sequence in which to test that impression.
The mouth extends the uncertainty. The lips are separated, but there is no visible listener to help us decide whether speech is beginning or has stopped. Surprise, concern and expectation can each find a foothold here. None accounts completely for the combination of open mouth, lifted eyes and still hand. The face is expressive without becoming an illustration of a single emotion.
Cloth, exposed shoulder and the space around her
The white blouse forms a broad, irregular light area below the face. Its neckline dips across the chest, and its gathered folds break the surface into smaller changes of light and shadow. The heavier grey-green outer garment has fallen away from one shoulder. Cloth bunches near the arms and spreads over the lap, giving weight to the lower half of the figure. Against these ample folds, the exposed neck and shoulder look comparatively unprotected.
That contrast can suggest vulnerability without requiring a story about how the clothing came to be displaced. The slipping garment is a visible condition of the pose; it is not evidence of an assault, a recent escape or any other particular event. Nor does the plainness of the clothes by itself establish the sitter’s circumstances. What the clothes do within the composition is clearer: they make a substantial base for the figure and set the mobile head against something heavier and more settled.
The blouse also keeps the gaze from becoming an isolated detail. Its light surface draws the eye down from the face, across the uneven neckline and into the folds at the waist. The darker lap then leads towards the resting hand. Looking can circulate through the whole figure before returning to the eyes. The painting’s emotional force depends on this bodily setting, rather than on the eyes alone.
Colour establishes another relationship between figure and surroundings. The face has a warmth which stands apart from the cooler grey-green clothing and pale sky. The hair makes a dark, compact shape above the lighter flesh. These contrasts give the head clarity at a distance, while the changing directions of the chin, nose and gaze reward a closer view. The effect is more specific than a general claim that sombre colours express sorrow: the picture directs attention through differences between neighbouring areas.
The sky itself is not an unbroken mass of darkness. Pale expanses are crossed by cooler cloud shapes, with a lighter band near the low horizon. This open space makes the outline of the head easy to read. It also extends beyond her look, offering no definite destination for it. To say that she looks upwards is accurate; to say that she is addressing heaven would add a meaning which the visible direction alone cannot establish.
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Small crosses and low stone forms appear behind and beside the figure, especially towards the left. They give the setting its funerary character, but they remain subordinate to the girl. No inscription identifies a grave for us. No other person supplies a relationship or explains why she is here. The cemetery locates the encounter without turning it into a fully narrated episode.
There is a striking difference of scale between those distant markers and the nearby face. The crosses belong to a space we survey; the girl occupies a space that feels immediately shared. Her proximity asks for attention to an individual, even though the picture withholds the information by which we would ordinarily identify one. The setting therefore enlarges the possible significance of her expression while leaving its immediate cause uncertain.
The familiar title encourages us to connect that expression with the death of a parent. Once the word “orphan” has been supplied, the cemetery can seem to confirm a story already begun in language. But neither a name nor a documented personal history accompanies the figure in the evidence for the work. Her actual orphan status, the identity of anyone buried here and the possibility of a funeral just witnessed remain unestablished. The title is a powerful invitation to imagine bereavement, rather than a sufficient biography of the sitter.
Likewise, the upward eyes need not be described as tear-soaked. Their brightness and angle carry much of the expression, but visible appeal is not proof of weeping. Loneliness is a possible response to the single figure in this setting; being literally alone in the world is a much larger claim. Preserving these distinctions allows the painting to remain affecting without requiring an invented account of what has happened to her.
A possible connection with Chios
The older title Study also matters to the proposed relationship with Delacroix’s large The Massacres at Chios. In their 2018 catalogue essay, Sébastien Allard and Côme Fabre connect the Orphan Girl with that painting’s preparatory work. They associate the sitter with a beggar girl mentioned in Delacroix’s journal on 17 February 1824, in connection with the young Greek boy at the far left of the larger composition. Their discussion on printed page 25 offers a scholarly reconstruction of the relationship between model, studies and finished painting. The sitter’s identification and this canvas’s precise preparatory role remain hypothetical.[8]
The proposal offers a useful way to think about the figure’s capacity to suggest a story. An expressive head can contribute to a crowded historical composition, where nearby bodies and actions help determine its meaning. Here the concentration on one seated figure gives the response room to remain unresolved. We confront a person’s attention without being given the larger event that might explain it. That difference helps us understand the smaller painting’s independence, whether or not its precise place in the preparation of Chios can be established.
The Salon record does not settle that question by itself. Calling a work Study says less than calling it a study for a named figure in a named painting. It does, however, prevent the later cemetery title from being treated as the only account the work has ever carried. The painting can be approached both as an investigation of an expressive pose and as an image that invites a narrative of loss. Neither approach requires certainty about the sitter’s life.
An appeal without an answer
Delacroix gave the painting to Frédéric Leblond. It later passed through the Gebauer collection before Étienne Moreau-Nélaton bought it in 1904 and donated it to the Louvre in 1906.[1] This documented history follows the canvas rather than the girl. We can trace its passage between owners more securely than we can identify the life suggested by its title.
What remains immediate is the arrangement of the figure: the hand still on the lap, the loosened cloth, the shoulder beneath the turning head. Each return to the picture can begin with the face, but the quieter details keep that face from resolving into a simple emblem of grief. Her body gives the look weight; the empty space beyond the frame denies it an answer. We are left attending to someone whose response is vivid and whose situation remains partly closed to us. That balance of proximity and withheld explanation sustains the painting’s appeal.
Annotated Details from Orphan Girl at the Cemetery
The numbered points identify visible features discussed in this article. Return from each detail to the whole composition. Orphan Girl at the Cemetery — Eugène Delacroix
Details from ORPHAN GIRL AT THE CEMETERY
Compare these details with the whole composition to follow the different gestures, scales and spaces.
The upward, sideways gaze
The lifted eyes and parted lips give the turn a sense of interruption. The painting leaves the object of that attention beyond the frame.
The resting hand
The hand lies quietly across the lap while the head turns elsewhere. Its stillness supplies a different rhythm from the alert expression.
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
Look again at the images and ideas explored in Orphan Girl at the Cemetery. These editorial prompts invite your observations.
Reader Insights
Compare the resting hand with the turned head. How do stillness and sudden movement share the figure?
Look at the pale sky and the grave markers behind her shoulder. What do they reveal, and what remains uncertain?
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References
- Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures, “Jeune orpheline au cimetière”, Eugène Delacroix, 1824, inventory RF 1652, collection record, including dimensions, Salon title and provenance. Louvre Collections. French. Accessed 28 October 2026 through the supplied local capture. 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.
- Musée du Louvre, Jeune orpheline au cimetière, RF 1652, 1824; object metadata and history. French. 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.
- Sébastien Allard and Côme Fabre, “The Sphinx of Modern Painting”, in Delacroix, exhibition catalogue, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018, p. 25, including fig. 9 (PDF p. 41). Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue. English. Accessed 28 October 2026 through the supplied local extract of the cited page. 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 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.
- Christie’s, Cromwell at Windsor Castle,1828,Johnson129;2002auction record/lotessay and1831Salon listing. 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.


