Fallen Horse and Dead Knight
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
c. 1827–1829
- Medium
- Graphite, with touches of stumping, on cream wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 24.9 × 31.7 cm (9 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Margaret Day Blake
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Numerous variations of this subject can be found throughout the work of Delacroix. The glistening skin and flamelike mane of the horse are common features in his lithographs of 1827-29. It is possible that this drawing is an illustration for Shakespeare's Henry VI.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
