Self-portrait of Delacroix:
Reproduction of the self-portrait:
Nothing was said about this in the exhibit or the catalog, but there's a very strong possibility that, as Katherine Neville says in The Eight, Delacroix was Talleyrand's illegitimate son. His supposed father was unable to father children until he had a medical procedure about 3 months before Delacroix's birth. Here are photos I took of two portraits of Talleyrand at the Metropolitan Museum during my visit in May 2017. Do you see a resemblance?
Talleyrand by Gerard:
Talleyrand by Prud'hon:
Early self-portrait of Delacroix, from the 1820s. This is before
Mireille meets him in 1830. He looked very different then:
Delacroix's paintings of scenes from Lord Byron's The Giaour:
Delacroix's paintings of scenes from Lord Byron's Sardanapalus:
Text about Delacroix's time in Morocco and Algeria:
The Lion of the Atlas Mountains:
Two paintings of men on horseback that Delacroix painted in North Africa:
Three paintings of men that Delacroix did in Morocco:
Delacroix's painting of a sultan and his entourage:
Delacroix's painting of shoes that were often worn in the Middle East in the 1820s:
