Horses Leaving the Sea
Horses Leaving the Sea or Horses Coming Out of the Sea is an 1860 oil on canvas painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.[1] Relatively atypical in Delacroix's oeuvre, it shows two horses leaving the sea led by a Moroccan rider, with the town of Tangiers in the background. It was produced for the same art dealer as Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable and is usually regarded as a pair with that work.[2]
Implementation
Eugène Delacroix testified at length to his fascination for the equestrian spectacle in his correspondence, and reserved a large part of his work to Arab horses and riders.[3] Horses Leaving the Sea is a late painting, made a few years before his death, at the same time as Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable. Compared to that of the fighting horses, this painting can be considered as a "peaceful counterpoint". Both works are made for the same dealer, Estienne.[4] This painting's spacious setting and lack of turbulent action is unusual in Delacroix's work.[5] This is one of the very last Moroccan reminiscences among the works of Delacroix.[6]
References
- ^ (in French) Jean-Pierre Digard (ed.), Chevaux et cavaliers arabes dans les arts d'Orient et d'Occident, Éditions Gallimard et Institut du monde arabe, 27 novembre 2002, 304 p. (ISBN 2-07-011743-X)
- ^ (in French) Maurice Arama and Eugène Delacroix, Le Maroc de Delacroix, éditions du Jaguar, 1987, 223 p.
- ^ Genet-Delacroix, Marie-Claude (2006), "Les historiens d'art et Marianne", La République en représentations, Éditions de la Sorbonne, pp. 159–172, doi:10.4000/books.psorbonne.59612, ISBN 9782859445461
- ^ "Digard, Francine", Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press, 2011-10-31, doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00051546, retrieved 2022-04-01
- ^ Thompson, James (2008). Eugène Fromentin, 1820-1876 : visions d'Algérie et d'Egypte. Barbara Wright (Nouv. édition ed.). Courbevoie (Paris): ACR. ISBN 978-2-86770-188-7. OCLC 276978502.
- ^ Hureaux, A. Daguerre de (2003), "Bertrand, James", Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t008420, retrieved 2022-04-01
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