Such horses Delacroix saw on the bank of an African river – smeared with mud, fiercely fighting, piled up. Now they are fighting in the stables – there is a roar of hoofs and wheezing. One bit the other by the neck, the mighty cereals gleamed, the bloodshot eyes squinted…
The grooms, sleeping in a corner in rags, woke up and rushed to somehow calm them down, to separate them. These ragamuffons are majestic, like the Romans. One of them wrapped himself in a rag, and she flutters like a toga. A stick in his hand is a wand, this is the belt of Jacob…
Related Paintings 
The Battle of Thayebur by Eugene Delacroix 
A tiger playing with his mother by Eugene Delacroix 
The death of Sardanapal by Eugene Delacroix 
Lion Hunt by Eugene Delacroix 
Moroccan family by Eugene Delacroix 
Sketch for the painting Death of Sardanapal by Eugene Delacroix 
Portrait of Baron Schweiter by Eugene Delacroix 
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