Homage to Delacroix

Homage to Delacroix is an 1864 painting by Henri Fantin-Latour painted in homsge to the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix who died the year prior. The work features a group of painters and writers all 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.

Homage to Delacroix
Artist	Henri Fantin-Latour
Year	1864
Medium	Oil on canvas
Location	Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Besides Delacroix and Fantin-Latour pictured in the work are Louis Cordier, Louis Edmond Duranty, Alphonse Legros, Henri Fantin-Latour, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Eugène Delacroix, Champfleury, Édouard Manet, Félix Bracquemond, Charles Baudelaire, and Albert de Balleroy.[1] Whistler and Manet stand to the left and right respectively of the portrait of Delacroix. The painting was executed from a photograph taken approximately a decade earlier.[2]

Today the painting is part of the permanent collection of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.[3][4][5]