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The Shipwreck of Don Juan

The Shipwreck of Don Juan is an 1840 oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. It depicts a scene from Lord Byron epic poem Don Juan. Don Juan and others are adrift in the Mediterranean in a ship's boat following a shipwreck.

It was exhibited at the Salon of 1841. Today it is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris, having been acquired in 1883. A much earlier sketch of the scene by Delacroix is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

References

Bibliography

  • Allard, Sébastien & Fabre, Côme. Delacroix. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.
  • Alston, Isabella. Delacroix. TAJ Books International, 2014.
  • Davies, Elspeth. Portrait of Delacroix. Pentland Press, 1994.
  • Néret, Gilles. Delacroix. Taschen, 2000.