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The retrospective of the French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) broke all the records of the Louvre in Paris. With 540,000 visitors, the exhibition is the most visited exhibition since the founding of the museum, as confirmed Friday the Louvre. On average, more than 5,000 visitors came daily.
The exhibition, which ended on July 23, was the first exhibition devoted to Delacroix in France since 1963. It exhibits more than 180 works from all phases of his career, his historical and combat paintings with his animal and oriental paintings, his portraits and his religious works.
Delacroix is considered the leading representative of French Romanticism as a pioneer of Impressionism. His first major exhibition success was the "Dantebarke" in 1822, which was copied years later by Edouard Manet.
Delacroix's show will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on September 17th. According to the Louvre Museum, it is the first retrospective of the painter in the United States. The Paris museum was opened in 1793.
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