The Natchez, 1823?24 and 1835, Oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 46 in. (90. 2 x 116. 8 cm), Paintings, Eugene Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798?1863 Paris), In 1823, Delacroix began to paint this scene from Chateaubriand?s widely read Romantic novel Atala, which narrates the fate of the Natchez tribe in the wake of the French and Indian War (1754?63)