The Shipwreck of Don Juan
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| Artist | Eugène Delacroix |
| Year | 1840 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 135 cm × 196 cm (53 in × 77 in) |
| Location | Louvre, Paris |
The Shipwreck of Don Juan is an 1840 oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.[1] It depicts a scene from Lord Byron epic poem Don Juan.[2] Don Juan and others are adrift in the Mediterranean in a ship's boat following a shipwreck.
It was exhibited at the Salon of 1841. Today it is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris, having been acquired in 1883.[3] A much earlier sketch of the scene by Delacroix is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[4]
