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Portrait of Eugène DELACROIX (1798-1863), the main French painter representing Romanticism, signed by Pierre Petit in red on the image.
Vintage print on salted paper, Sortais collection
Format 19 x 23 cm
Frame size: 31 x 36 cm
This is Delacroix's most famous portrait. The sitting at Pierre Petit's studio involved several poses, and different prints from this session can be found at the Musée d'Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.
Pierre Lanith PETIT (1831 - 1909) learned photographic techniques from Eugène Disdéri, the inventor of the carte-de-visite photograph. He was nicknamed "Collodion the Hairy".
In 1859, he began an ambitious project for a Gallery of Men of the Day, composed of portraits accompanied by biographical notes of personalities at the center of current events in entertainment, culture and political life.
Portrait of Eugène DELACROIX by Pierre PETIT
Portrait of Eugène DELACROIX (1798-1863), the main French painter representing Romanticism, signed by Pierre Petit in red on the image.
Vintage print on salted paper, Sortais collection.
Format 19 x 23 cm
Frame size: 31 x 36 cm
This is Delacroix's most famous portrait. The sitting at Pierre Petit's studio involved several poses, and different prints from this session can be found at the Musée d'Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.
Pierre Lanith PETIT (1831 - 1909) learned photographic techniques from Eugène Disdéri, the inventor of the carte-de-visite photograph. He was nicknamed "Collodion the Hairy".
In 1859, he began an ambitious project for a Gallery of Men of the Day, composed of portraits accompanied by biographical notes of personalities at the center of current events in entertainment, culture and political life.