Turk Mounting His Horse
1824
Medium
Aquatint; first state of two
Dimensions
Image: 8 9/16 × 10 3/8 in. (21.8 × 26.4 cm) Sheet: 9 5/16 × 11 3/16 in. (23.6 × 28.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Arthur Ross Foundation Gift, 1990
Accession Number
1990.1113
Tags
About the Artist
Eugène Delacroix · 1798–1863
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) stands as the defining figure of French Romanticism and a pivotal bridge to modernism. Born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice near Paris, he came from distinguished lineage—his mother descended from the prestigious Oeben-Riesener furniture dynasty, while persistent speculation suggested the statesman Talleyrand may have been his biological father, a theory supported by physic...