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The Shipwreck of Don Juan
Painting by Eugène Delacroix From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Shipwreck of Don Juan is an 1840 oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.[1] It depicts a scene from Lord Byron epic poem Don Juan.[2] Don Juan and others are adrift in the Mediterranean in a ship's boat following a shipwreck.
It was exhibited at the Salon of 1841. Today it is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris, having been acquired in 1883.[3] A much earlier sketch of the seven by Delacroix is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[4]
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