Arab Saddling his Horse
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| Author: Eugene
Delacroix |
| Genre Painting, Painting, Oil on canvas, 56x47 cm |
| Origin: France, 1855 |
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Delacroix took the subject for this painting from his
recollections of a journey he made through Algeria and Morocco in
1832. The artist's works on Oriental themes are characterised by a
synthesis of documentary realism and Romantic mood . This work is a
good example of such an approach, in which an everyday action is
treated such as to create a sense of disturbance, of something
unnatural: the wild, desert landscape, the dark sky with its
threatening clouds, the sword in the front plane, the hurried
movements of the Moroccan and the highly strung pose of the horse
all contribute to reinforce the effect.
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| Style: Romanticism |
| Source of entry: Museum of the
Academy of Arts, Petrograd, 1922 |
| Theme: History |
| Exibition: French Art: 19th - 20th
centuries |
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