“Delacroix”
with Asher Miller, Assistant Curator of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris), Basket of Flowers, 1848–49. Oil on canvas, 42 1/4 x 56 in. (107.3 x 142.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967, 67.187.60.

Miller will discuss his historic exhibition on view September 17, 2018– January 6, 2019, which highlights the main phases of the Delacroix’s four-decade-long career. Asher Miller, Assistant Curator, received a BA in history and art history from Bowdoin College and a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Since coming to the Met as a research assistant, in 2001, he has contributed to numerous publications, exhibitions, and gallery installations. A specialist in 19th-century European art, recent areas of interest range from Ingres and Delacroix to Courbet, plein air painting, northern artists working in Italy, and Orientalism

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