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Jewish Wedding in Morocco, in which the painter's concern with true tone-values and beautiful quality of pigment is carried even further than in the
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Algerian Women, and the intensely dramatic
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Hamlet and the Gravediggers --both are now at the Louvre--were his chief works in 1839; whilst in the following year he devoted his energies to the large
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Justice of Trajan (now extensively restored) at the Rouen Gallery, and the powerful
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Shipwreck of Don Juan, surely one of the most tragic and impressive pictures ever conceived by human genius. It bears the same relation to the
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Dante and Virgil that
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The Crusaders bears to
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The Massacre of Scio. And it is one of the most striking instances of Delacroix's power to make colour itself expressive of the mood of the drama. The conception, though based on Byron's poem, owes little to the literary foundation--that is to say, it is not illustrative in the sense that acquaintance with the poem is essential for its appreciation. It is just a vivid realisation of the combined horrors of shipwreck and starvation in which the tragic aspect of sea and sky is as significant as the ghastliness of the wretches whom hunger has turned into cannibals. The sombre tonality and the flashes of livid light, recall El Greco in his later period. To the year 1841 belongs
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The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople,
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The Sultan of Morocco surrounded by his Guard, which was bought by the State for the Toulouse Gallery at the price of £160. Baudelaire, ever an ardent admirer of Delacroix, draws attention to the peculiar quality of the colour harmony in this picture which,
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The Sultan of Morocco