Delécluze's Response to Delacroix's "Scenes from the Massacres at Chios" (1824)

• Autores: Margaret MacNamidhe
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 89, Nº 1, 2007, págs. 63-81
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Paris Salon of 1824 has been widely considered one of the most important of the nineteenth century. It has long been characterized as a highly polemical exhibition, divided between the waning tradition of Jacques-Louis David and the painting of Eugène Delacroix and his peers, more recent arrivals in the Salon arena. Delacroix's Scenes from the Massacres at Chios would seem to be the candidate least likely to garner approval from Étienne-Jean Delécluze, the Salon's staunchest critical defender of the Davidian tradition. His unexpected praise for the Chios's central figure reveals the relation between David's history painting and the Chios.