DELACROIX EUGENE: (1798-1863) French Painter. Regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school, ...

DELACROIX EUGENE: (1798-1863) French Painter. Regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school, he is also considered one of the last old Masters of painting, and one of the few who was ever photographed. Rare A.L.S., `Eug Delacroix´, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., the 27th, to an unidentified correspondent, in French. Delacroix states in part `I send you back the British magazines that you kindly lent me, and I am ashamed that I kept them for so long. They were of a great help during my convalescence..´ With blank integral leaf. Extremely small foxing stains, folded. G £500-800 Charles Baudelaire wrote about the Delacroix `Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible´.