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Delacroix was born on April 26, 1798, at Charenton-Saint Maurice. He studied under the French painter Pierre Gu�rin and also trained in the formal neoclassical style of the French painter Jacques-Louis David, but he was strongly influenced by the more colorful and opulent style of such earlier masters as the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens as well as the Italian painter Paolo Veronese. He absorbed the spirit of his contemporary and countryman Theodore Gericault, whose early works exemplify the violent action, love of liberty, and budding romanticism of the turbulent post-Napoleonic period.
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