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DELACROIX, Eugène: Self-Portrait as Ravenswood

🖼 Self-Portrait as Ravenswood, c. 1821
Oil on canvas
41 × 32 cm
Paris, France

Dramatic shadow envelops a figure in dark Romantic costume, rendered with bold brushwork and psychological intensity. Delacroix's self-portrait as a literary character reveals his artistic identity through literary imagination, establishing Romanticism's fusion of personal vision with dramatic storytelling.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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