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The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, Eugène Delacroix
The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, 1826

Eugène Delacroix

1798–1863 · Romanticism · 18 works

Delacroix used color and energetic brushwork to intensify stories drawn from literature and the imagination. These scenes connect Romantic drama with Orientalism. Their imagined violence also reflects the colonial attitudes through which nineteenth-century European audiences often viewed North Africa and the Middle East.

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Life and work

1826
Paints The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan

A poem by Lord Byron provides the subject for this dramatic confrontation.

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18 works · 1822–1861

1822–1834 · 7 works

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In the museum: Romanticism room · 2 works

1832–1835 · 4 works

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1842–1861 · 7 works

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In the museum: Romanticism room · 2 works

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Artist information: Art Institute of Chicago (The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion, Lion Hunt), The Met.

Public-domain art. An imagined museum; no museum affiliation.