Count Demetrius de Palatiano (1794–1849) in Suliot Costume
Eugène Delacroix, 1800
From €29Museum-quality print, also on canvas and framed.
Frequently asked questions
Which size should I choose?
This work is available in 30 × 40 cm, 50 × 70 cm. As a guide: 30 × 40 cm (about 12 × 16 in) for shelves, corners or gallery walls; 50 × 70 cm (about 20 × 28 in) above a dresser, a headboard or a desk; 70 × 100 cm (about 28 × 39 in) as the centrepiece of a living room or the wall above the sofa. Below the buy buttons you can see it to scale above a 2-metre sofa.
Does it come framed?
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About the work
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Date
- 1800
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 34 × 26 cm (13 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Národní Galerie, Prague (currently on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- Print up to
- 50 × 70 cm
- Reference
- XDV-1261
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Delacroix paints Count Palatiano standing still, yet all the energy of the portrait is concentrated in that hand gripping the hilt. The canvas measures barely 34 by 26 centimetres, an almost sketch-like format for such a display of embroidered cloth and polished metal. The Louvre holds several preparatory drawings of figures in Souliote dress that Delacroix refined until arriving at this version, now on loan from the Národní Galerie in Prague to the Met. What do you think Delacroix sought to capture in that instant before movement — calm, or contained menace?
