Bordeaux Museum of Fine Arts
Fire-scarred Delacroix masterpiece hangs among centuries of French, Flemish and Dutch painting.
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This guide to the Bordeaux Museum of Fine Arts follows Delacroix's Lion Hunt, a canvas painted for the eighteen fifty-five world fair, through the fire that tore through Bordeaux's town hall in December eighteen seventy and burned away its entire upper third. It centers on a young art student, Odilon Redon, who had sketched two vanishing horsemen from the painting years earlier without knowing why it would matter. Stand close to the canvas today, where paint simply stops and bare, patched canvas begins along a straight, ragged line.
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