Eugène Lacroix

Eugène Lacroix was a painter of landscapes, genre scenes, and still lifes, but little else is known of his activity in Paris. Lacroix published three lithographs of Rome in 1835. He exhibited at the Salon from 1841 onwards and was a recipient of a silver medal at the 1878 Exposition Universelle, and subsequently received a Grand Prix at the 1889 Exposition Universelle (Hors-Concours). The “M. Constant. D.” to whom A Studio in the Villa Medici is dedicated may be Lacroix’s near-contemporary Henri-Joseph-Constant Dutilleux (1807–1865), a painter, lithographer, and early practitioner of the cliché-verre photographic technique. (JGK)