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DELACROIX, Eugène: Self-Portrait with Cap

🖼 Self-Portrait with Cap, 1832
Drawing
193 × 127 cm
Paris, France

Dark eyes pierce through shadow, framed by a tilted cap and loosely rendered brushwork. Delacroix captures youthful intensity and romantic defiance, establishing himself as a leading Romantic painter challenging academic tradition in 1830s France.

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