Depicts natchez native american mother and father with their newborn child on the banks of the mississippi river. Inspired by 1801 novel "atala" by chateaubriand, the setting is in french colonial louisiana; the natchez couple have recently escaped upriver from a massacre. [1]
↑ met museum. Object Type: painting. Date: 1835. Dimensions: height: 90.2 cm (35.5 in); width: 116.8 cm (45.9 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Eugène Delacroix - Les Natchez, 1835 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
