National Museum Eugene Delacroix takes an apartment in which the artist lived the last years of his life, and his studio, located in a garden adjacent to the house. The artist moved here in 1867 to work on smoothly painted located near the church of Saint-Sulpice. He was seriously ill and wanted to have time to complete the work on murals.

Delacroix lived stormy, eventful life. It was believed that he was the illegitimate son of Napoleon's foreign minister Talleyrand. The boy's parents died early, at sixteen years old boy appeared to himself. Reflecting on his future, he chose painting and ten years later achieved fame in this field, putting the painting "The Massacre at Chios". After the July uprising of 1830, he wrote the famous "Liberty Leading the People" - the picture caused a furor, the government bought it, but then ordered to remove from the public eye. In Russia, the fabric known as "Liberty on the barricades." It is now exhibited in the Louvre.

Then there were the years of wandering in the countries of the Maghreb. On his return to France - the official order for the Bourbon and the Palais du Luxembourg, the Louvre. The last twelve years of his life devoted to Delacroix church of Saint-Sulpice, where he created the technique of encaustic huge fresco "The Battle of Jacob with the angel," "Saint Michael, striking demon" and "Expulsion of Heliodorus robber from the Jerusalem temple." Delacroix very saddened that these works have remained virtually unnoticed.

Eugene Delacroix died in 1863 in his home. And the apartment and workshop have moved into private hands. In 1929 the house came to demolish to build a garage. Committee for the Salvation of the monument led painters Maurice Denis and Paul Signac. As a result, the studio Delacroix was declared a monument of national culture. Today you can see the true masters of easel, two wooden tables of drawing, sketches, drawings and engravings, a narrow bed, where the artist spent the last hours of life.

Connoisseurs of the artist's work can also be viewed in the Luxembourg Gardens, plastic and expressive monument to Delacroix sculptor Aimé-Jules Dalu. The monument is installed here in 1890.