CalendarThe Education of the Virgin
- Eugene Delacroix
- 1798 - 1863
- The Education of the Virgin
- 1852
Oil on canvas 46 x 55.5 cm
Signed lower right: Eug. Delacroix
P.1970-1
Delacroix was the main protagonist of French Romantic painting. Influenced by Rubens and Venetian masters, he developed a painting style of luminous colors and dynamic movement. In this work, however, he seems to display another aspect of his art, depicting an intimate and quiet scene like a musical nocturne. The subject is the Virgin being taught to read the Old Testament by her mother St. Anne. He had painted a larger canvas of the same subject ten years before, using Georges Sand's farm wife and her daughter as models.
(Source: The Digital Gallery. 1999-2006)
