Digital Delacroix

Artificial intelligence at the service of artistic heritage

The project

The Digital Delacroix project, led by Barthélémy Jobert, aims to deepen our understanding of Eugène Delacroix's work using artificial intelligence, 3D visualisation and physico-chemical analyses.

This interdisciplinary initiative, which brings together several laboratories of Sorbonne Université, sets out to develop new tools for analysing and exploring the master's work.

The project draws on a vast digital corpus comprising Delacroix's writings, paintings, drawings and prints, as well as data collected during the recent restoration of the library of the French National Assembly.

This programme is supported by the Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI).

Partners

Around SCAI and the Centre André-Chastel, several partners have joined forces, each contributing their specific expertise and fields of excellence to the various research areas of the Digital Delacroix project.

Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence

Sorbonne Université

Pierre & Marie Curie Campus, Paris

Centre André-Chastel

UMR 8150 — CNRS · Sorbonne Université · French Ministry of Culture

Galerie Colbert, Paris

Schmidt Family Foundation

Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI)

Philanthropic foundation

Fondation Sorbonne Université

Pierre & Marie Curie Campus, Paris

Laboratoire d'Archéologie Moléculaire et Structurale

UMR 8220 — CNRS · Sorbonne Université

Pierre & Marie Curie Campus, Paris

Observatoire des Textes, des Idées et des Corpus

Sorbonne Université

Pierre & Marie Curie Campus, Paris

Assemblée nationale

Real Estate and Heritage Department

Palais Bourbon, Paris

Research areas

Explore the main directions of this digital and artistic adventure, where innovation meets heritage.

The art of Delacroix

Analysing the artist's writings and works to better understand his thinking

The master's hand

Identifying the different hands of Delacroix's workshop in the paintings of the National Assembly library

The lost Hôtel de Ville decor

Reconstructing the Salon de la Paix, painted by Delacroix, as it stood before its destruction in 1871

Visit and revisit

Giving the broadest possible audience the chance to discover the details of Delacroix's great mural decors

Meet the team

To tackle the project's main challenges, the team brings together specialists in art history, artificial intelligence, scientific visualisation and materials analysis.