Auguste Delacroix - Allegory Of Autumn

Auguste DELACROIX Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1809 – Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1868 Oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm (86 x 74 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower right “a. Delacroix / 1862» This painting is signed and dated 1862. We recognize the style of Auguste Delacroix, romantic painter of the middle of the 19th century, with his bright colors, his powerful sense of matter and his science of very theatrical composition with strong lighting. A native of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Auguste Delacroix began his career representing the people of his country. In the 1850s he notably painted The Gatherers of Shells Surprised by the Tide and Waiting for Fishermen's Wives. Auguste Delacroix regularly exhibited landscapes but also genre scenes (The fountain, The promenade, The hotel, The Italian harvesters...) at the Paris Salon, leaving history painting to his illustrious namesake! The works of Auguste Delacroix are preserved in particular in the museums of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Dieppe, Rennes, Reims and at the MuCEM in Marseille.