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Drawing and the Formation of an Artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) received a conventional academic training in drawing, although his subsequent practice would extend far beyond its prescribed methods. He began formal instruction at the Lycée Impérial, later Louis-le-Grand, in Paris, where he won distinctions for drawing in 1813 and 1814. In 1815, at the ageContinue reading “Delacroix: Drawing and Imagination”