Eugène_Delacroix_-_Les_Natchez,_1835_(Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art).jpg
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Summary
Eugène Delacroix
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The Natchez
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| Title |
The Natchez
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painting
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| Description |
Depicts Natchez Native American mother and father with their newborn child on the banks of the Mississippi River. Inspired by 1801 novel "Atala" by Chateaubriand, the setting is in French Colonial Louisiana; the Natchez couple have recently escaped upriver from a massacre.
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| Date | 1835 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 90.2 cm (35.5 in); width: 116.8 cm (45.9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Gallery 801
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| Accession number |
1989.328
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| Credit line | Purchase, Gifts of George N. and Helen M. Richard and Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh and Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, by exchange, 1989 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions |
Signature bottom right:
EugDelacroix
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Web Gallery of Art
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Image
Info about artwork
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 110000620) |
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