Eugène Delacroix - A Moroccan Saddling a Horse. Arab Saddling his Horse 1855
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A Moroccan Saddling a Horse. Arab Saddling his Horse 1855
65x47cm oil/canvas
Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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From Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg:
Delacroix was a founder of the Romantic trend in 19th-century painting. He took this subject from his recollections of a journey he made through North Africa in 1832. The artist's works on Oriental themes are marked by a synthesis of realistic details rendered with ethnographical precision and the Romantic mood. This work is a good example of such an approach, in which an ordinary scene is treated as something unusual: the wild, deserted landscape, the dark sky with thunder-clouds, the sword in the foreground and the anxiety of the horse all endow the scene with a troublous mood.