L’Immortalité (1889)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904)

L’Immortalité (Immortality)
1889
Oil on canvas, 116.2 x 87.3 cm
National Museum WalesCardiff

The personification of Immortality holds the palm of victory and scatters flowers onto a tomb inscribed ‘DELACROIX’. Behind, the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral and the dome of the Panthéon national monument emerge from the Paris skyline. (NMW)

See also:

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) | Notre-Dame de Paris | Paris (France)