# Sunset

**Eugène Delacroix** (French, 1798–1863)  
ca. 1850  
Pastel on blue laid paper  
Overall: 8 1/16 x 10 3/16 in. (20.4 x 25.9 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014.732.4. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/342992).

## About this work

Eugène Delacroix drew this in about 1850, aged about 47. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Pastel.** Sticks of almost pure pigment with very little binder. The colour sits on the paper as powder: bright, matte and fragile.
- **Laid paper.** Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.

### [Eugène Delacroix](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/eugene-delacroix)

French, 1798–1863; born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice; died in Paris

Delacroix trained under Pierre-Narcisse Guérin and emerged in the 1820s as the leader of French Romanticism, with dramatic, richly coloured canvases such as The Death of Sardanapalus and Liberty Leading the People. A six-month journey to Morocco and Algeria in 1832 gave him a store of sketches and memories that fed his work for decades. Later he decorated public buildings in Paris, among them the Chapel of the Holy Angels at Saint-Sulpice, and his journal is a key record of his thinking.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Drawings
- The artist was about 47
- Real size: about 8 × 10 in (20 × 26 cm). The 8 × 10 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Subjects: Landscapes
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56; 18 × 24 in $68; 20 × 30 in $86
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164; 20 × 30 in $208
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5

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