Joe Lloyd reviews Eugène Delacroix at The Louvre on view through July 23, 2018.

Lloyd observes that “the importance Delacroix placed on colour as a vehicle for meaning runs through the Fauvists, Matisse and Picasso and abstract expressionism, right through to much present-day art. To this is joined Delacroix’s painterliness. Even the most harmoniously composed of his paintings reveal themselves, at close quarters, to be riots of different strokes and textures.”