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Combat Between the Giaour and the Pasha
Eugène DelacroixLinkedCulture matchlcp-ff01cec55b2b
- Date
- 1827
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 72302
Like the poem on which it is based, Lord Byron’s The Giaour (1813), this print exhibits Europeans’ contemporary fascination with the Middle East, a trend known as Orientalism that often depended on stereotypes of violence and sexuality. In the poem, a Venetian giaour (a Turkish term for a non-Muslim) falls in love with Leila, a member of a Turkish harem controlled by the pasha (master), Hassan. When Hassan discovers this affair, he kills Leila. In the scene depicted here, the giaour fights the pasha to avenge his lover.
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- Mrs. George B. Young Fund and Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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