Patrick Bade
French Romantic Painting, Part 2: Eugene Delacroix
Summary
Patrick Bade discusses France’s colonial expansion in North Africa, triggered by an incident involving an insolent French ambassador in 1830. He covers the impact of Delacroix’s North African journey on his art, his admiration for British artists, and his later Church of Saint-Sulpice murals.
Patrick Bade
Patrick Bade is a historian, writer, and broadcaster. He studied at UCL and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was a senior lecturer at Christie’s Education for many years and has worked for the Art Fund, Royal Opera House, National Gallery, and V&A. He has published on 19th- and early 20th-century paintings and historical vocal recordings. His latest book is Music Wars: 1937–1945.
No, in fact he didn’t. There is a famous quote from Delacroix where he said “Je suix pure classique.” I’m a pure classical artist. So that’s how he thought of himself. The whole business of Classical versus Romantic is a complex one.