Auguste Delacroix
A native of Boulogne, Auguste Delacroix is best known as a painter of Breton genre scenes and marine subjects. He also produced a number of Orientalist works, notably a series of drawings and watercolours made during a visit to Morocco and Algeria around 1849. Delacroix exhibited paintings, drawings and watercolours at the Salons between 1835 and 1865, winning a third-class medal in 1839, a second-class medal in 1841 and a first-class medal in 1846. Late in his career, around 1865, Delacroix settled in Italy.
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He began suffering from paralysis, and his late works were painted with his left hand. Nevertheless, his reputation as a watercolourist was such that he was commissioned to contribute illustrations to the Nouveau traité tout practique de lavis et de la peinture à l’aquarelle; a manual on watercolour technique published in Paris in 1872, a few years after the artist’s death. Works by Auguste Delacroix are today in the museums of Calais, La Rochelle, Pontoise, Reims and Cologne.
