Combat Between Giaour and the Pasha

Prints and Drawings

1827

Eugène Delacroix
French, 1798-1863

Like the poem on which it is based, Lord Byron’s The Giaour (1813), this print exhibits Europeans’ contemporary fascination with the Middle East, a trend known as Orientalism that often depended on stereotypes of violence and sexuality. In the poem, a Venetian giaour (a Turkish term for a non-Muslim) falls in love with Leila, a member of a Turkish harem controlled by the pasha (master), Hassan. When Hassan discovers this affair, he kills Leila. In the scene depicted here, the giaour fights the pasha to avenge his lover.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Title: Combat Between Giaour and the Pasha
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1827
Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 35.8 × 26 cm (14 1/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 47.5 × 33.9 cm (18 3/4 × 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Mrs. George B. Young Fund and Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment
Reference Number: 1988.291
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