Fallen Horse and Dead Knight

Prints and Drawings

c. 1827–1829

Eugène Delacroix
French, 1798-1863

Numerous variations of this subject can be found throughout the work of Delacroix. The glistening skin and flamelike mane of the horse are common features in his lithographs of 1827-29. It is possible that this drawing is an illustration for Shakespeare’s Henry VI.

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Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Title: Fallen Horse and Dead Knight
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1817–1829
Medium: Graphite, with touches of stumping, on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 24.9 × 31.7 cm (9 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Margaret Day Blake
Reference Number: 1969.19
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 48, no. 2E3.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake,” April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 28 (ill.), as “Wounded Horse.”
Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, April 23–May 14, 1972.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, “Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso,” October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 41 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, “Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago,” February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 82-83, cat. 38(ill.).
Musée des Beaux-Arts, “Delacroix et la Bataille de Nancy,” 1979.
The Art Institute of Chicago, March 27, 1989-May 31, 1990, (Allerton gallery 223A).

(Leon?) Suzor, Paris [according to curatorial file]. Sold by B. C. Holland, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1969.

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