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Eugène Delacroix completed this dramatic scene of a dying outlaw desperately drinking water. The figure's powerful musculature and anguished expression exemplify Romantic interest in extreme emotional and physical states.
Delacroix often depicted brigands and exotic subjects, drawn to themes of violence, passion, and death. The composition's diagonal thrust and rich color demonstrate his departure from Neoclassical restraint. Such subjects allowed exploration of the human body in crisis. It hangs at the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Arnold Böcklin
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Robert Delaunay
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Hans Holbein the Younger
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Other masterpieces from the Romanticism movement

Francisco Goya, 1823
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Madrid

John Constable, 1821
National Gallery, London

Francisco Goya, 1814
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Madrid

Francisco Goya, 1800
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Madrid

Francisco Goya, 1823
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Madrid

J.M.W. Turner, 1839
National Gallery, London

Francisco Goya, 1800
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Madrid

Jean-François Millet, 1859
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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