A portrait sketch: 7 stories about secular, wild, passionate and reserved Eugène Delacroix
Coming close to the cages of wild predators to watch them, but being afraid of small children. Spending day and night having absorbing conversations with friends, and then upbraiding himself for the time wasted. Stoically withstanding his enemies' wrath and yet being unable to resist the heat of passion. Delacroix was compared to a volcanic crater artistically concealed beneath bouquets of flowers…