Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863)


Eugène Delacroix
Arabes D'Oran

etching
Paris Publie de Cadart & Luquet, Editeurs, 79 Rue Richelieu Imp. Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques, 3o3 Paris (margin l.l.), E. Delacroix sculp. (margin, l.r.)
signed in image, l.r.
etching, drypoint and roulette laid down on woven plate paper
1833
6 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches (plate)
12 x 13 1/2 inches (sheet)

$850

Arabes d’Oran is an etching by French Romantic painter-etcher Eugène Delacroix. It resulted from a 1832 trip to Algeria and Morocco, during which the artist was taken with the culture, seeing his Orientalist subjects as alike to the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Delacroix was influenced by fellow Romantic painter Théodore Géricault and, as he progressed in developing his own revolutionary style and ideas, became one of a group of Romantics that included author George Sand and composer Frédéric Chopin. His most famous painting for many is Liberty Leading the Barricades.