Arab Rider Charging is a small 1832 Orientalist oil on canvas painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, dated and signed by the artist. It is now in a private collection.[1] It shows an Arab rider charging at the gallop.
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No information survives on the nature of the commission or the creative process behind the work, other than the fact that Delacroix offered it directly to Jacques-Denis Delaporte, the French consul at Tangiers, and that Delacroix based the work on sketches he had made in Morocco,[1] with the group of riders in the foreground directly copied from one of those sketches.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Jean-Pierre Digard (ed.), Chevaux et cavaliers arabes dans les arts d'Orient et d'Occident, Éditions Gallimard et Institut du monde arabe, 27 novembre 2002, 304 p. (ISBN 2-07-011743-X), p 261