Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit from 1848 at the Philadelphia Museum shows Delacroix's mastery of still life painting. His flower and fruit compositions demonstrate the same passionate color sense that animates his figurative works. Delacroix executed the work with his characteristic broken, energetic brushwork and rich colorism, building up his surfaces in ways that directly influenced the Impressionists who studied his technique at the Louvre after his death.

The arrangement is rendered with vibrant color and energetic brushwork. Delacroix's chromatic virtuosity transforms a conventional subject into a celebration of color.