Crags

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Known more for his grand Romantic and Orientalist paintings, Delacroix, struck by a trip to England in 1816, where he discovered the English landscape artists and the use of watercolours, retained an interest in nature throughout his entire career.  Normandy inspired most of his landscapes, but it was in Touraine during a stay with his brother that he painted this small, youthful study in 1822, showing the crags of Pont-Chalais, which belonged to the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). With its delicate blue-toned harmony, this painting is, like Delacroix’s subsequent work, both realistic and poetic.