Homage to Delacroix

Homage to Delacroix
Artist	Henri Fantin-Latour
Year	1864
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	160 cm × 250 cm (63 in × 98 in)
Location	Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Homage to Delacroix is an 1864 painting by Henri Fantin-Latour painted in homage to the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix who died the year before. The work features a group of painters and writers, all of whom went on to become notable themselves, gathered around a portrait of the late Delacroix. The painting was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1864.

Besides Delacroix and Fantin-Latour, pictured in the work are Louis Cordier, Louis Edmond Duranty, Alphonse Legros, Henri Fantin-Latour, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Eugène Delacroix, Champfleury, Édouard Manet, Félix Bracquemond, Charles Baudelaire, and Albert de Balleroy.^[1] Whistler and Manet stand to the left and right, respectively, of the portrait of Delacroix, which was executed from a photograph taken approximately a decade earlier.^[2]

Today the painting is part of the permanent collection of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.^[3][4][5]

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