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Delacroix at the Met: A retrospective that evokes today's turmoil

  • Written by Claire Black McCoy, Professor of Art History, Columbus State University
Delacroix at the Met: A retrospective that evokes today's turmoilEugène Delacroix's 'Self-Portrait in a Green Vest' (1837).Wikimedia Commons

I’m an art historian and professor who studies and teaches French Romantic art. So when I was in France this past summer, I made sure to see the Louvre’s retrospective exhibition of French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix.

In the galleries, I...

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