Homage to Delacroix

Homage to Delacroix is an 1864 painting by Henri Fantin-Latour painted in homage to the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix who died the year before. The work features a group of painters and writers, all of whom went on to become notable themselves, gathered around a portrait of the late Delacroix. The painting was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1864. Today the painting is part of the permanent collection of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.

Subject
James McNeill Whistler, painter, Alphonse Legros, Louis Cordier, painting, standing, Champfleury, sitting, Félix Bracquemond, bouquet, Albert de Balleroy, Louis Edmond Duranty, Henri Fantin-Latour, Édouard Manet, Eugène Delacroix, man, flower, Charles Baudelaire