Art Institute of Chicago
Fallen Horse and Dead Knight
Eugène DelacroixLinkedCulture matchlcp-ff01cec55b2b
- Date
- c. 1827–1829
- Medium
- Graphite, with touches of stumping, on cream wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 30948
Numerous variations of this subject can be found throughout the work of Delacroix. The glistening skin and flamelike mane of the horse are common features in his lithographs of 1827-29. It is possible that this drawing is an illustration for Shakespeare's Henry VI.
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- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Margaret Day Blake
- Provenance
- (Leon?) Suzor, Paris [according to curatorial file]. Sold by B. C. Holland, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1969.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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