Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was one of the greatest French painters of theomantic period. Passionately opposed to the sterile conventions of David andhe other academic artists, he took up again the broken threads of the greataroque style and created a long run of masterpieces. But even if he hadever put brush to canvas, he would still live as a famous diarist.;"elacroix's Journal" is one of the great documents in art history, a work ofiterature as well as a vital documentary source for scholars and students.n it the artist discusses his own paintings, his life, his sorrows and hopes;he paintings and sculptures of Rubens, Michelangelo, Constable, Boningtonnd others; old and new literature and the music of Mozart, Beethoven,ossini and his close friend Chopin; the events of his tune; the beauties ofature; life in foreign countries.;Throughout he never loses his grip on theeader, though it seems that he wrote for himself only and never thought ofeing read. The resulting unselfconscious spontaneity and freshness give theork its unique quality, both as literature and as a source of insight into.