Delacroix exhibition, the most visited in the history of the Louvre Museum

The exhibition devoted to the painter Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre was, with nearly 540,000 visitors, the most visited in the history of the French museum, informed Thursday of the cultural institution.

The exhibition dedicated to the painter Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre It was, with nearly 540 000 visitors, the most visited in the history of the French museum, reported Thursday the cultural institution, recently honored in a clip of rap star couple integrated by Jay-Z and Beyoncé.

"This historical retrospective devoted to one of the giants of French art, the first since 1963, has become the greatest (public) success that has ever had an exhibition of the Louvre in its walls, "says the museum in a statement.

This museum disc is still far below the 1.2 million people who witnessed the collection of Shchukin (Sergei, Russian patron and collector, midway between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) presented at the Louis Vuitton Foundation – with a much larger exhibition space than the Louvre – which set the record for participation in an art exhibition in France.

Louvre, Delacroix was more successful than the exhibition "Deir al Medina" (city of artists of ancient Egypt) dedicated to artists pharaohs in 2002 (430 000 visitors) and a another devoted to Venetian painters Tiziano, Tintoretto and Veronese in 2009 (more than 410,000 visitors)

"Delacroix 1798-1863" will be presented from September at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In Paris, there were an average of 5,100 visitors a day for four months, a little less than Leonardo da Vinci's (5,450 visitors / day) in 2003, which had a shorter duration.