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Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion, Eugène Delacroix, The Art Institute of Chicago

Arab Horseman Attacked by a LionEugène Delacroix (1798–1863) · 1849–50The Art Institute of Chicago · Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0) · the museum’s record

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Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion

Eugène Delacroix, 1798–1863, painted 1849–50

Held by The Art Institute of Chicago and released as Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0). It is here to paint after: give us your own line and the painters take its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.

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Painting after it: The painters take its handling, its surface and its light. Your line, or your photograph, stays the subject.
The credit: Every painting made after it carries “after Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion, The Art Institute of Chicago” on its plaque, and on the share page.
The licence: Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0), as the museum states it. The credit travels with it everywhere we show it, and it is never enlarged.

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