# Count Demetrius de Palatiano in Suliot Costume

- By: Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)
- Date: not dated
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Unframed: 40.7 x 33.2 cm (16 x 13 1/16 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.33)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.33/1973.33_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The Greek war of independence in the 1820s was a source of great interest for the rest of Europe. The exotic costumes of Greek soldiers, or Palikares, were popular subjects for artists. Count Palatiano was a flamboyant Greek aristocrat who often posed for Delacroix and his colleagues in Paris.