Eugène-Delacroix National Museum

About

The Eugène-Delacroix National Museum is a museum founded in the late 1920s by the Society of Friends of Eugene Delacroix, which became a national museum in 1971. He first opened in June 1932, with a first exhibition dedicated to the painter and his friends, Delacroix and his friends. Located in the painter's last apartment and workshop, where he lived from December 1857 until his death on August 13, 1863, the museum was created, more than sixty years after the death of Delacroix, by painters, collectors, curators, gathered in association to save the place, threatened with destruction. Chaired by Maurice Denis, the Society of Friends of Eugene Delacroix also brought together Henri Matisse, Paul Signac, Édouard Vuillard, George Desvallières and others.