id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7608 Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius - Wikipedia .html text/html 952 118 76 Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius is an 1844 painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. A preliminary sketch of the painting that was given to Delacroix's student Louis de Planet is also kept in the museum. The first text which speaks of the painting is the catalog of the Salon of 1845 where it was exposed, which reads: "The figure of Marcus Aurelius, indeed sick and almost dying, seems to us in a too early decomposing state; the shades of green and yellow which hammer his face give him a quite cadaverous appearance", "some draperies may be too crumpled" and "some attitudes show a lack of nobility".[3] The work received mostly negative reviews, but the writer Charles Baudelaire appreciated it and said: "A beautiful, huge, sublime, misunderstood picture [...]. Charles-François Delacroix (father) Paintings by Eugène Delacroix ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7608.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7608.txt