Exposure: A modern fight of Delacroix at our days

The national museum Eugène Delacroix devotes an exposure of painting on the topic of the Vault of the Saint–Angels to Sulpice Saint.

Since the recent restoration led by the Town of Paris, the exposure is dedicated to paintings on “the fight of Jacob with the angel, driven out Héliodore of the temple and Saint Michel embanking the demon”. Loans of the French and foreign museums, new sources of Delacroix in reference to its own works, clarify these three masterpieces. Major works of the painter are visible only in the large Parisian museums. One découvreégalement the daily newspaper of the painter, his personal objects, its artistic evolution and of many sketches, studies and tables.

Being too far away from the church Sulpicedont Saint it was to decorate the vault, Delacroix made build, according to its plans subjected as a preliminary, its workshop become today “the National museum Eugène Delacroix” in a privatiffaisant space left the old collectives of the abbey palace of Saint–Germain of the Meadows.

The visit of this distinguished museum ends in the access to its charming privative garden hidden behind the interior court. Chairs are at the disposal of visitors to benefit from one privileged moment of relaxation.

In the intention to prolong the visit, to ask the reception of the museum the course walk to discover paintings of the artist in the church Sulpice Saint.
This museum is also to visit with the Museum of the Louvre which proposes a twinned ticket which gives access to the 2 museums.

National museum Eugène Delacroix – 6 rue de Fürstenberg – 75006 Paris
Exposure until July 23rd, 2018

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