Eugène Delacroix, 1850 - Moroccan Horseman Crossing a Ford - fine art print

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"Moroccan Horseman Crossing a Ford" was by the male French artist Eugène Delacroix in 1850. Moveover, the artpiece is part of the art collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum, which is located in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. With courtesy of: The J. Paul Getty Museum (public domain license).The creditline of the artwork is the following: . Moreover, alignment is portrait with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which implies that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter Eugène Delacroix was a European artist, whose style can be classified as Romanticism. The painter lived for 65 years, born in the year 1798 in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne and died in 1863.

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Dramatically lit and heroically isolated, a Moroccan horseman, fist upraised, charges across a ford, his horse rearing as it gains the riverbank. Behind them stretches an expansive plain where another lone horseman gallops towards a military encampment. The two rearing horses echo each other, just as the foremost horse's tail repeats the form of the weeds on the riverbank. In the background, under a turbulent sky, lies a chain of dark mountains.

Delacroix drew inspiration for this painting from his 1832 trip to Morocco, during which he feverishly took notes and made countless sketches and watercolors. The horsemen he encountered in Morocco were among his favorite subjects. As his writings attest, Delacroix saw in them a living incarnation of the noble of spirit and terrible strength of will that he associated with the heroes of antiquity. He designed this small-scale painting for private contemplation, signaling a general retreat into a more subjective realm of exoticism and fantasy.

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