On 7 May 1824, twenty-six year old Delacroix put down his brush during the painting of the Massacres of Chios in order to write in his journal (plate 14). Pleased with the overall effect of the composition, he congratulated himself and tried to find words for the pictorial qualities he sought:My picture is beginning to develop a torsion, an energetic movement that I must absolutely complete. I must keep that good black, that happy dirtiness, and those limbs which I know how to paint and few others even attempt. The mulatto will do very well. 2
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