First published in Paris in 1893, the text used for this translation was that of the revised and corrected edition of the Journal, edited by M. Andre Joubin and published by Libraire Plon in 1932. The Journal of Eugene Delacroix, translated by Lucy Norton and edited by Hubert Wellington, was first published by Phaidon Press Ltd. in 1951. The text of this Folio edition follows that of the 1951 edition, with minor emendations. Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix; 26 April 179813 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity and led him not to the classical