Eugène Delacroix - Les Natchez, 1835 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)FXD
Summary
Depicts Natchez Native American mother and father with their newborn child on the banks of the Mississippi River. Inspired by 1801 novel "Atala" by Chateaubriand, the setting is in French Colonial Louisiana; the Natchez couple have recently escaped upriver from a massacre.[1]
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Date
1835
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Copyright info
public domain