The Statue of Eugène Delacroix at the Luxembourg
When one wants to erect a statue in memory of a great man, money is insufficient; one also needs the sculptor capable of understanding the model who must inspire him. Photographs, still incomplete thirty years later, and taken at different phases of the painter's life, only gave Mr. Dalou vague indications; he thus had to reconstitute the entire bust, and he succeeded admirably. The features are at once energetic and traced with melancholy; proud and resigned—like the life of the master.