Durieu-Delacroix

The early French photographer Durieu made this in conjuction 

with the great artist Delacroix in the mid-1850s.

 

Durieu and Delacroix in the 1850's, Part 2 - Delacroix's Art

Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was a French Romantic painter whose work was so good that he has his own museum in Paris.  He influenced the Impressionists and left a legacy of diverse paintings that have stood the test of time.  In the mid-1850's his friend and amateur photographer Eugene Durieu produced some of the earliest male and female nude photos as 

studies for him.  I was only able to find about eight of his male nude drawings and paintings, 

and several of those are academic pieces from his student days.  Our Friday night art lesson 

features five of Delacroix's nudes, but we begin with this outstanding self portrait.

Here we see two of the four sketches by Delacroix that are known

 to have resulted from his collaboration with Durieu.

At first glance, I though Delacroix might have used one of Durieu's photos as a study for this painting.  Having now gone through Durieu's entire album, I can't find a pose that matches.

I found this image of a Delacroix drawing of two wrestlers on an auction website, 

and the original sold for a considerable sum of money.

A Polish model is said to have posed for this Delacroix drawing.

This rather pedestrian (for Delacroix) piece is felt to have been done early in his student days.