Old World Portraits
Portrait of General Lafayette in the Park at La Grange-Bléneau
Louise-Adéone Drölling
An elegant 19th-century portrait depicting General Lafayette in a contemplative moment within a verdant landscape.
Louis-Auguste Schwiter
Eugène Delacroix
1827 · Oil Paint, Canvas
An elegant Romantic-era portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter, captured with a moody, atmospheric backdrop by Eugène Delacroix.
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Where it works
A substantial, grounding work in a warmer tonal register — supports a polished room with depth.
- Often works in
- Library · Study · Living Room
- Placement
- Strongest where a vertical wall can take more presence
- Walls
- Reads strongest on light or mid-tone walls
- Color notes
- Charcoal black, Rich brown
About the piece
Painted in 1827, this striking full-length portrait by Eugène Delacroix depicts his friend, the painter Louis-Auguste Schwiter. Standing on a terrace amidst a twilight parkland, Schwiter is dressed in the height of 19th-century dandyism, his dark silhouette sharply defined against the soft, atmospheric sky and distant landscape.
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