Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Romantic Horse
Mazeppa on the Dying Horse
Eugène Delacroix, 1824 · oil on canvas
What it is
Mazeppa lies bound to the back of a horse that falls exhausted on the open plain, a bird of prey overhead, in Eugène Delacroix’s small oil on canvas of 1824.
Why it matters
Delacroix, the leader of French Romantic painting, took the young Mazeppa tied to a wild horse from Byron.
What to notice
The horse’s head is buried in the grass, and the open sky fills the top of the picture.
Carried to the end of the world.
Provenance
- Maker
- Eugène Delacroix, 1824
- Era
- The Georgian Turf (1750–1837)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1824
- Source
- Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01. Wikimedia Commons licence tag, read 2026-11-01: PD-Art|PD-old-auto-expired|deathyear=1863. The maker died in 1863.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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