Painter considered the leader of the French Romantic School. "The Barque of Dante" (1822), "Liberty Leading the People" (1830), and "Medea About to Kill Her Children" (1838) are regarded as his major works.
Théodore Géricault and
Jacques Louis David were among his influences.
Pablo Picasso produced several studies of Delacroix's "Women of Algiers in Their Apartment" (1834).