Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains (1863)
Eugène Delacroix
Oil on Canvas. French, Romantic.
French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Part I: Before Impressionism [1800-1859]
Delacroix saw North Africa as a simpler, uncorrupted society compared to modern Europe. He believed North African men were braver and more manly, like the warriors of ancient Greece and Rome. Here, he…