Basket of Flowers, 1848?49, Oil on canvas, 42 1/4 x 56 in. (107. 3 x 142. 2 cm), Paintings, Eugene Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798?1863 Paris), Given the social and political unrest in post-revolutionary Paris, Delacroix retreated to his country house, Champrosay, in September 1848. There he undertook a series of flower paintings, intended for the Salon of 1849, that he hoped would capture the variety and profusion of garden flowers