Horse Frightened by a Thunderstorm (c. 1824) by Eugène Delacroix

Horse Frightened by a Thunderstorm or White Horse Frightened by a Thunderstorm[1] is a watercolour on paper work by Eugène Delacroix painted sometime between 1824 and 1829, most probably in 1824.[2]

Showing a horse frightened by lightning beside the seashore, it was probably inspired by Théodore Géricault's Isabelle the Horse Frightened by A Thunderstorm (National Gallery, London), painted during that artist's stay in England[3] Delacroix gave his watercolour to Baron Schwiter.[4] In 1934 the art collector Pál Majovszky donated it to the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, though it was loaned for the 1963 Paris exhibition on the centenary of Delacroix's death.[5]

References

  1. ^ Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier, Le peintre et l'animal en France au XIXe siècle, Éditions de l'Amateur, 2001, 367 p., page 147
  2. ^ Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, Hélène Lassalle, Agnes Mongan, Maurice Sérullaz, Ernst Goldschmidt, Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium). Société des expositions, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Ingres et Delacroix, dessins et aquarelles, Michèle Trinckvel, 1986, 303 p., p. 263.
  3. ^ Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault: Regard social et politique : le séjour anglais et les heures de souffrance, vol. 7 de Théodore Géricault, Bibliothèque des arts, 1997, 301 p. (ISBN 2884530312 et 9782884530316), p. 27.
  4. ^ Centenaire d'Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863: Musée du Louvre, mai-septembre 1963, Ministère d'État, Affaires culturelles, 1963, 172 p., p. 35.
  5. ^ Szépművészeti Múzeum, Bulletin: Közlemény (Hungary), no.s 25-27, p. 19, 1964.
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