A pupil of Michallon and then Bertin, Corot first came to realize that drawing is the very mainstay of art during his sojourns in Italy. From then on, all his life he constantly drew, initially favour
Delacroix drew incessantly throughout his life. The importance the artist attached to this aspect of his work is born out by the thousands of sheets that were dispersed at the time of the sale followi
This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of EugAne Delacroix (1798-1863), the great French Romantic painter. A pivotal figure in the history of nineteenth-century art, Delacroix stands both at th
