After Ingres left Paris in 1834 to become director of the French Academy in Rome , Chassériau fell under the influence of Eugène Delacroix , whose brand of painterly colorism was anathema to Ingres .
After Ingres left Paris in 1834 to become director of the French Academy in Rome , Chassériau fell under the influence of Eugène Delacroix , a well-known romantic painter .