In 1929, the French artists Maurice Denis, Paul Signac, and Édouard Vuillard banned together to turn the Parisian apartment of their late friend and luminary Eugène Delacroix into a museum in his honor. In 2004, the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix, which houses works such as Mary Magdalene in the Desert and Romeo and Juliet at the Tomb of the Capulets, became affiliated with the Louvre, and since September of 2023, it’s been closed for renovation. Finally ready to reopen to the public, the inaugural exhibition studies the great rivalry between Delacroix and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, pinning the best of Romanticism against traditional Neoclassicalism. A fascinating topic, worth the wait. —Clara Molot