Count Demetrius de Palatiano in Suliot Costume

Cleveland Museum of Art

Count Demetrius de Palatiano in Suliot Costume

Eugène Delacroix

Date
not dated
Medium
oil on fabric
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

The Greek war of independence in the 1820s was a source of great interest for the rest of Europe. The exotic costumes of Greek soldiers, or Palikares, were popular subjects for artists. Count Palatiano was a flamboyant Greek aristocrat who often posed for Delacroix and his colleagues in Paris.

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