Painter of Passion

This selection from the journal of Eugene Delacroix, kept mainly in the 1820s and again from 1847 until his death in 1863, records the daily work of a painter in Paris: sittings, commissions, colour, the studio, and visits to galleries. He writes about Rubens, Mozart, literature, and the politics of the Salon, and he drafts notes toward a dictionary of the fine arts. The book is a working diary, not a formal autobiography. First published in the 1890s, it shows how a nineteenth-century artist thought on the page about pictures, music, and the discipline of looking.

Bound in full red canvas with an oval portrait of Delacroix on the front board. Endleaves picture printed in colour. Grey slipcase.