However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist.

Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the 'forces of the sublime', of nature in often violent action. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( / ˈ d ɛ l ə k r w ɑː, ˌ d ɛ l ə ˈ k r w ɑː/ DEL-ə-krwah, -⁠ KRWAH, French: 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

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