DELACROIX, Eugène
(b. 1798, Charenton-Saint-Maurice, d. 1863, Paris)

A Mortally Wounded Brigand Quenches his Thirst

c. 1825
Oil on canvas, 32,5 x 40,7 cm
Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel

Delacroix's experience of English artists is reflected here, alongside the influence of Venetian painting and the works of Rubens. A critic remarked: "The colour of this piece is as beautiful as some landscape imagined by Byron as the setting for the bloodstained body of one of the tyrants of Missolonghi."




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