Delacroix and nature

FRENCH LANGUAGE At a time when Romanticism emphasised the feeling of nature and renewed the representation of landscape, how can we define the link between Eugène Delacroix and nature? He painted fauvists and flowers, but he wanted to be a history painter first and foremost, and his writings as well as his works show a certain ambivalence. Although he enjoyed walking in the countryside, he did not exhibit his rare landscapes. He multiplied his precise sketches on the ground, but left a lot of room for imagination in his paintings. Above all, the transition from drawing from nature to painting