Title

The Entry of the Crusaders Into Constantinople, 1840, (1911). Creator: Eugene Delacroix.

Caption

The Entry of the Crusaders Into Constantinople, 1840. This painting depicts an episode of the Fourth Crusade, in which the Crusaders abandoned their plan to invade Muslim Egypt and Jerusalem, and instead sacked the Christian city of Constantinople. After an oil painting by Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863). Original work housed in the Louvre, Paris. From "A History of Painting Vol. VI" [T. C. and E. C. Jack, London & Edinburgh, 1911]

Date

1911

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C64_309

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

22,4Mb (2,0Mb) / 10,2in x 8,5in / 3064 x 2552 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors woman women woman people man man men religious arts painting flag flags religion art guy Istanbul Turkey violence weapon weapons museum aggression aggressive Christianity war century banner gallery spear Louvre entry soldiers soldier sack concept violent injured injury louvre museum standard warfare art gallery sacking publication oil Painting Day 19th century weaponry 1910s 20th century Constantinople nineteenth century The Print Collector crusader Crusades TGN outside Crusaders Musée du Louvre Fourth Crusade Eugene Delacroix Delacroix Eugene Stamboul History of Painting art centre Musee du Louvre Ferdinand-Victor-Eug?ne Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eug?ne Delacroix Eug?ne Delacroix Delacroix Eug?ne Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugene Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix 19th-century