Horse Frightened by Lightning – (Eugène Delacroix) ◄ Προηγούμενος Επόμενος ►

Καλλιτέχνης: Eugène Delacroix

ημερομηνία: 1829

μέγεθος: 23 x 32 cm

μουσείο: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)

Τεχνική: Drawing

The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest boasts several masterpieces by Eugène Delacroix, the leading figure of French Romantic painting. These paintings, drawings and lithographs are representative of all areas of the oeuvre of the artist, who rejected the Classicist cult of the line, and based his own style on the expressive power of colour.Delacroix was celebrated by his contemporaries almost exclusively as a painter, as he was reluctant to part with his drawings, which were not meant either for public display or for collectors. He kept his sketches and studies in his studio, which thus became publicly known only after his death. One of the rare exceptions is one of his most dramatic works, Horse Frightened by Lightning, which soon after completion he gave as a present to a friend, portrait and landscape painter Louis-Auguste Schwiter, in gratitude for the casts of a collection of antique medals, from which Delacroix made lithographs.The horse played a special role in the art of Delacroix in the 1820s. This was so because while preparing the monumental oil painting, Massacre at Chios (1824), he realised he needed a thorough knowledge of the anatomy of the horse if he was to paint historical scenes. Théodore Géricault