The Shipwreck of Don Juan is an 1840 oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.Néret p.14 It depicts a scene from Lord Byron's epic poem Don Juan.Allard & Fabre p 166 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. A much earlier sketch of the scene by Delacroix is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
References
Bibliography Allard, Sébastien & Fabre, Côme. Delacroix. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. Alston, Isabella. Delacroix. TAJ Books International, 2014. Davies, Elspeth. Portrait of Delacroix. Pentland Press, 1994. Néret, Gilles. Delacroix. Taschen, 2000.