# A Moroccan Saddling a Horse [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DELACROIX, Eugène]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 56 x 47 cm ## Commentary A Moroccan Saddling a Horse 1855 Oil on canvas, 56 x 47 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Delacroix's Romanticism is virtually the opposite of German artists' interpretation of the style. But his interest in depicting animals - the lions in the grip of death's fury, the spirited horses, alongside which the humans seem like frozen statues - connects him with the prose of German Romantic writers, in which the theme of the human in the beast and the bestial in the human plays a substantial role. ## Related artworks - [A Mad Woman]() - [A Mortally Wounded Brigand Quenches his Thirst]() - [A Vase of Flowers on a Console]() - [A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother]() - [Apollo Slays Python \(detail\)]() - [Apollo Slays Python]() - [Apollo Slays Python]() - [Apollo Vanquishing the Python]() - [Arab Fantasia]() - [Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable]() - [Aspasia]() - [Aspasia]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()