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--and for Wilkie, whose sketches and studies he declared to be beyond praise, although
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Justinian Composing the Institutes, for the interior of the Conseil d'État, perished by fire in 1871. The Salon was only reopened, after an interval of two years, in 1827, when Delacroix was represented by no fewer than twelve paintings, including
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The Death of Sardanapalus,
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Marino Faliero, and
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Christ in the Garden of Olives. The extreme daring, the tempestuous passionate disorder of the design of the large
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Sardanapalus alienated from him even the few enlightened spirits who had espoused his cause on the two former occasions. The reception of the picture was disastrous. Delacroix himself admitted that the first sight of his canvas at the exhibition had given him a severe shock.
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I hope, he wrote to a friend,
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The picture raised a hurricane of abuse. His own significant dictum that
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was turned against him by a critic who spoke of the work of an
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Another described him as a
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and yet another referred to the picture as the
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His other pictures were scarcely noticed, although they included a masterpiece like the
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Marino Faliero