In 1849, Eugène Delacroix received the order for the painted decorations of the chapel of the Saints-Anges in Saint-Sulpice church. This monumental, rich, sublime work, which occupied him until 1861, could be considered, after his death, as his spiritual testament. The singular way in which Delacroix had chosen to treat the biblical episodes of the Wrestling of Jacob with the Angel, of St. Michael knocking down the devil or of Heliodorus expelled from the Temple showed how faithful the artist had remained to his art, reinventing a classical motif of painting - that of wrestling - drawing from
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