Untitled [flowers]

Flowers from 1850 at the Minneapolis Institute represents Delacroix's continued engagement with floral still life in his later years. His flower paintings became increasingly free and expressive, anticipating Impressionist handling. 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 flowers are rendered with vibrant, freely applied color. Delacroix's late brushwork achieves a spontaneity that anticipates modernist approaches to still life.