Fallen Horse and Dead Knight
Eugène Delacroix
1817–1829
- Medium
- Graphite, with touches of stumping, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 24.9 × 31.7 cm (9 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- graphite
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)graphiteprints and drawingstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)
About
Numerous variations of this subject can be found throughout the work of Delacroix. The glistening skin and flamelike mane of the horse are common features in his lithographs of 1827-29. It is possible that this drawing is an illustration for Shakespeare's Henry VI.
