Eugène Delacroix, 1826 - The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan - fine art print

In 1826 Eugène Delacroix made the modern art painting. The original was made with the size: 59,6 × 73,4 cm (23 1/2 × 28 7/8 in). Oil on canvas was applied by the artist as the technique for the piece of art. Nowadays, this piece of art belongs to the Art Institute Chicago's digital art collection, which is one of the world’s great art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe. This masterpiece, which belongs to the public domain is being supplied with courtesy of Art Institute Chicago. Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Bertha Palmer Thorne, Rose Movius Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Palmer. The alignment is in landscape format with an aspect ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. Eugène Delacroix was a painter of French nationality, whose artistic style can be classified as Romanticism. The Romanticist painter lived for a total of 65 years, born in the year 1798 in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne and deceased in the year 1863.

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The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan is among Eugène Delacroix’s finest early representations of battle. The painting was inspired by The Giaour, a lengthy poem by England’s famous Romantic poet, Lord Byron. Written in 1813 and translated into French in 1824, the poem presents a subject and setting—passion avenged on a Greek battlefield—that perfectly suited the artist’s Romantic imagination. The painting depicts the poem’s dramatic climax, when the Venetian giaour (a Turkish word for a non-Muslim) avenges his lover’s death at the hands of the Turk Hassan. Weapons poised, the two enemies face off in mirroring poses: the giaour in swirling white, and Hassan with his face hidden. With its exotic costumes, intense drama, and forceful colors and forms, this painting is the most revered of the six known versions Delacroix made based on Byron’s poem. Begun in 1824, the year Byron died in the struggle for Greek independence from the Turks, Delacroix finished the painting two years later, just in time for it to be included in a Parisian exhibition benefiting the popular Greek cause.

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