Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
Military action, filed as a group
The title says horsemen and says military action, which fixes the function without naming a place, a side or an engagement. The record files the work under group portraiture, gives Orientalism as its style term, and adds mythology and fantasy headings. It does not file the work under Animal Art at all. The animal is in the title and missing from the tags, an inconsistency this site reports rather than corrects.
What the record holds
The date of creation is 1832 and the location is the Musée Fabre in Montpellier. The dimensions are not recorded. French is the recorded nationality, and the measured colour families of the image are brown and yellow.
What an Orientalism tag is evidence of
Orientalism is a style term applied to 55 records in this catalogue. It describes how European painters framed North African and West Asian subjects, and it is information about the making of a picture rather than about the people or the animals in it. A mounted subject filed this way tells you which genre the work belongs to. It does not tell you what any particular group of riders did, and this catalogue holds nothing that would.
Sources
3 references- Eugène Delacroix — Wikipedia
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( DEL-ə-krwah, -KRWAH; French: [øʒɛn dəlakʁwa]; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school. In contrast to the Neoclassical pe
- Delacroix, Henri Eugène — Getty ULAN
French painter, 1845-1930
- Delacroix, Eugène — Getty ULAN
French painter, 1798-1863
