Eugénie Dalton

Eugénie Dalton or D'Alton (née Geneviève-Charlotte Simon), (7 September 1802 or 1803 - 9 February 1859) was a dancer as well as pupil and mistress of Eugène Delacroix.

Her older brother, François Simon (1800-1877), was a star dancer at the Paris Opera from 1822 to 1842 and commissioned several portraits from Delacroix.

[1] After working as a dancer, in February 1824 she married an Anglo-Irish officer, Philip Tuite Dalton, in Paris.

[citation needed] She responded to these with letters and concluded them with the phrase la petite amie qui t'aime (the girlfriend who loves you).

Her largely forgotten biography was rediscovered in the 20th century, by Michèle Hannoosh in her publication of Journal de Delacroix in 2009.