Fallen Horse and Dead Knight

Eugène Delacroix, 1817

MEDIUMGraphite, with touches of stumping, on cream wove paper

DIMENSIONS24.9 × 31.7 cm (9 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

LOCATIONArt Institute of Chicago

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Academic artRomanticism

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Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863 · France

French Romantic master whose 'Lion Hunt' and exotic scenes revolutionized color and movement in 19th-century art.