Painting thoughts: an introduction to Delacroix / Beth S. Wright -- Delacroix in his generation / Alan B. Spitzer -- Delacroix and romanticism / James H. Rubin -- Eugène Delacroix and popular culture / Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer -- Orients and colonies: Delacroix's Algerian harem / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby -- "A science and an art at once": Delacroix's pictorial theory and practice / Petra ten-Doesschate Chu -- Delacroix's dialogue with the French classical tradition / Dorothy Johnson -- Delacroix and modern literature / Paul Joannides -- Delacroix as essayist: writings on art / Michèle Hannoosh -- Painting/literature: the impact of Delacroix on aesthetic theory, art criticism, and poetics in mid-nineteenth-century France / David Scott.