The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan  1826

[i]The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan[/i] is among Eugène Delacroix’s finest early representations of battle. The painting was inspired by [i]The Giaour[/i], a lengthy poem by England’s most famous Romantic poet, Lord Byron. Written in 1813 and translated into French in 1824, the poem presents a subject and setting—passion avenged on an exotic battlefield in Greece—that p...