198 Eugène Delacroix, Aspasie, 1824

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TitleAspasie

Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1824

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions12 3/4 × 9 5/8 in. (32.4 × 24.5 cm)

LocationPrivate Collection

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPainting, French--19th centuryWomen, Black, in artRacially mixed people in artPortrait painting, French

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Chapter 5: Blood-Mixing

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France

He lies face down. His long and vulnerable neck is stretched out taut like his extended arm but, unlike his limb, it is bluntly ruptured by a mass of dark hair...

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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.237-279

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00220.006

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Chapter subject tags:Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863Painting, French--19th centuryHistory painting, French--19th centuryArt criticism--France--19th centuryColonialism--France--HistoryGreece--History--War of Independence, 1821-1829Racially mixed people in art

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