Echoing the presentation ‘Is this a Delacroix? The art of copying’, the Musée Delacroix invites you to the lecture “From Goya to Delacroix: the Caprichos in 19th-century France” given by Paula Fayos-Pérez, postdoctoral researcher in Art History, in the heart of the painter's studio. [Presentation given in French]

The conference looks at the impact of Goya's Caprichos on 19th-century French art, particularly on the work of Eugène Delacroix. While the interest of the French public and the Romantic generation in Goya reached its peak in the 1830s, Delacroix was a pioneer, beginning to copy this print series around 1819. Deeply linked to his interest in caricature, expressivity and the grotesque, the Caprichos became part of his artistic imagination and led him to produce, in the following years, numerous Goyesque figures that appeared directly or indirectly in his graphic and pictorial work (as, for example, in Faust). His almost obsessive interest in Goya was part of a wider context marked by the 'Romantisme noir', a taste for Spanish art and orientalism, and he was part of the ‘Goya network’ to which artists and writers such as Théophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, Louis Boulanger, Alfred de Musset and George Sand belonged.