Eugène Delacroix - Battle of Poitiers 1830

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Battle of Poitiers 1830

Battle of Poitiers 1830
114x146cm oil/canvas
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

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1829-1830 Sketch for the Battle of Poitiers
Sketch for the Battle of Poitiers 1829-1830 52x64cm oil/canvas
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, US

From Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, US:
Delacroix often preferred to depict subjects from France's medieval past rather than from Greek or Roman antiquity. At the Battle of Poitiers (1356), a decisive episode in the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), John II of France was captured by the English forces led by Edward, prince of Wales, known as the Black Prince. This preparatory sketch is for King John at the Battle of Poitiers, a large canvas now in the Louvre Museum, Paris. It was commissioned by the duchess of Berry, the daughter-in-law of France's last Bourbon monarch, Charles X. This sketch typifies the bold brushwork and vivid colors associated with Delacroix's early work.