Museum of Fine Arts, Houston showcases French great’s lost masterpiece


A lost painting by one of the greats of the 18th century, French romantic period, Eugene Delacroix, has not only been found, but will soon have a new Texas home at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This masterwork, Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1833-34) is an early version Delacroix’s monumental Femmes d’Alger (1834), now part of the Louvre’s collection. The last known whereabouts of the painting vanished with its sale in 1850, and…

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