Shop art print and framed art Chevaux dans une écurie by Eugène Delacroix

Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable is an Orientalist oil on canvas painting by the French painter Eugène Delacroix, signed and dated 1860, and held in the Musée d'Orsay. During his stay in Morocco, Eugène Delacroix witnessed a horse fight that particularly impressed him, and which he wrote about in a letter to his friends dated 8 February 1832. He made a sketch, noting that "the grey horse put its head on the other horse's neck". In his diary dated 19 June 1854, Delacroix mentions this subject among several other projects with a Moroccan theme. However, he does not seem to have started on it until two years later. The painting was completed on 14 June 1860. The painting came late, since thirty years elapsed between the observation of this fight and the completion of Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable. Delacroix painted it a few years before his death, at the same time as Horses Emerging from the Sea, which can be seen as a "calmer counterpoint". These two paintings were made for the same dealer. The two horses are depicted as duettists. The painting was made for the dealer Estienne. It was sold in Paris on 12 February 1872. In 1873, John Saulnier acquired it in Bordeaux. It then became the property of Charles Hayem in 1885, then of Isaac de Camondo. A donation in 1908 enabled the Musée du Louvre to recover the painting and exhibit it in 1911. Since 1986, it has been housed at the Musée [...]

 

This artwork is a drawing from the classical period. It belongs to the romanticism style.

 

« Chevaux dans une écurie » is kept at Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.

 

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