About This Artwork

Eugène Delacroix
French, 1798-1863

The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, 1826

Oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 28 7/8 in. (59.6 x 73.4 cm)
Gift of Bertha Palmer Thorne, Rose Movius Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Palmer, 1962.966

Delacroix's The Combat Between the Giaour and Hassan, which is usually on view in gallery 220, is on loan to the CaixaForum, Madrid, 18 October 2011–15 January 2012, and the CaixaForum, Barcelona, 14 February–20 May 2012. It will return to the gallery approximately three weeks following the close of the exhibition.