Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Romantic Horse
Three Arab Horsemen at an Encampment
Eugène Delacroix, c. 1832 · watercolour on wove paper
What it is
Three Arab horsemen gather at a tent, one on a chestnut in the foreground while a figure sits wrapped in red, in Eugène Delacroix’s watercolour on wove paper of about 1832.
Why it matters
Delacroix travelled to North Africa in 1832, and the riders and horses he saw there stayed in his painting for the rest of his life.
What to notice
The chestnut’s coat is laid in quick wet strokes, and the blue hills behind are a single wash.
North Africa, still wet on the page.
Provenance
- Maker
- Eugène Delacroix, c. 1832
- Era
- The Georgian Turf (1750–1837)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- watercolour on wove paper
- Made
- 1832
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · via Wikimedia Commons · 2015.713.3
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: Cc-zero. 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 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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