# Greek Cavalry Men Resting in Forest

- By: Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)
- Date: 1858
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Framed: 76 x 87.5 x 7.5 cm (29 15/16 x 34 7/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 50.4 x 61.5 cm (19 13/16 x 24 3/16 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1032)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1032/1916.1032_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A leading figure of the French Romantic movement, Delacroix painted traditional historical subjects, but in a dramatic, expressive manner. The Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s caught the imagination of numerous French artists, who identified the Greek cause with their own revolution thirty years earlier. Like British Romantic poets, French artists regarded the Greek war of independence as a struggle for the survival of Western democracy and Christian civilization.