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Auguste Delacroix

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Two Figures on a Boat, watercolour, ca. 1843, now at the Brooklyn Museum

Auguste Delacroix, a French marine painter, was born on 27 January 1809 at Boulogne, and died there in 1868. He produced some elegant sea-pieces taken on the French and North African coasts, and also painted some African genre pictures.

Waiting for the Fishermen, 1834

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Delacroix, Auguste". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.