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Arab Rider Charging is a small 1832 Orientalist oil on canvas painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, dated and signed by the artist. It is now in a private collection. It shows an Arab rider charging at the gallop.

No information survives on the nature of the commission or the creative process behind the work, other than the fact that Delacroix offered it directly to Jacques-Denis Delaporte, the French consul at Tangiers, and that Delacroix based the work on sketches he had made in Morocco, with the group of riders in the foreground directly copied from one of those sketches.

References

1. ^ Jean-Pierre Digard (ed.), Chevaux et cavaliers arabes dans les arts d'Orient et d'Occident, Éditions Gallimard et Institut du monde arabe, 27 novembre 2002, 304 p. (ISBN 2-07-011743-X), p 261

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Paintings	The Entombment of Christ (1820) The Barque of Dante (1822) Mademoiselle Rose (c. 1820–1824) Head of an Old Greek Woman (1824) Orphan Girl at the Cemetery (c. 1824) The Massacre at Chios (1824) Horse Frightened by a Thunderstorm (c. 1824) Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826) The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan (1826, 1835, 1856) The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero (1826) Louis d'Orléans Showing Off His Mistress (1826) Portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter (1826–27) Woman Stroking a Parrot (1827) The Death of Sardanapalus (1827, 1844) Cromwell at Windsor Castle (1828) The Murder of the Bishop of Liège (1829) Liberty Leading the People (1830) A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother (1830–31) The Battle of Nancy (1831) Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I (1831) The Picador (1832) Arab Rider Charging (1832) Women of Algiers (1834, 1847–1849) The Natchez (1834–35) Christ on the Cross (1835) The Battle of Taillebourg, 21 July 1242 (1837) The Kaïd, A Moroccan Chief (1837) Convulsionists of Tangiers (1837–1838) Warrior by a Tomb (1838) Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand (1838) Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople (1840) Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (1840) The Sultan of Morocco (1845) The Abduction of Rebecca (1846) The Bride of Abydos (pre-1849, 1843–1849) Christ Asleep during the Tempest (c. 1853) Lion Devouring a Rabbit (c. 1855) The Two Foscari (1855) The Lion Hunt (1855) Ovid Among the Scythians (1859, 1862) Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable (1860) Horses Leaving the Sea (1860) Tiger with a Tortoise (1862)
Drawings	Sunset (c. 1850)
People	Charles-François Delacroix (father) Charles-Henri Delacroix (brother) Henriette de Verninac (sister) Jean-François Oeben (grandfather) Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Henri-François Riesener Jean-Henri Riesener Théodore Géricault Richard Parkes Bonington Paul Huet Ary Scheffer Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Museums	Musée national Eugène Delacroix (Paris)
Related	Romantic painting Homage to Delacroix (1864 painting) Delacroix (crater)

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