The "Journal" of Eugene Delacroix is one of the most important works in the literature of art history: the record of a life at once public and private, it is al

"Issued in conjunction with the exhibition ... held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 10, 1991, through June 16, 1991"--T.p. verso.

Delacroix's journal - fresh and unselfconsciously spontaneous - is one of art history's most important documents.

At Delacroix' studio sale, held six months after his death in 1864, crowds and critics were astonished at both the abundance and the multi-disciplinary nature o