Greek Cavalry Men Resting in Forest

The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Greek Cavalry Men Resting in Forest as painting (France, 19th century · 1858).

WHY IT’S INTERESTING

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

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A CLOSER LOOK

The museum identifies this painting as oil on fabric and credits Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863).

The museum's collection notes: 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.

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