Eugène Delacroix - The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero 1825-1826
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The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero 1825-1826
145x113cm oil/canvas
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom
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From The Wallace Collection, London:
Painted in 1825-6, a period when Delacroix briefly shared his studio with Bonington, whose influence this painting reveals. It was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1827. The subject is taken, with some variations from the text, from Byron’s 'Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice' (1820), V, iv. Byron, with Walter Scott, was the modern author who provided the richest stimulation to Delacroix's work. Faliero (1274-1355) was elected Doge in 1354 but was executed in the following year after conspiring against the Venetian state. The setting in Delacroix's painting recalls (but does not represent) the Giant’s Staircase of the Doge’s Palace (built 1485-9), and the costumes, some of the heads of the dignitaries and the rich colouring are derived from Venetian Renaissance painting.