Which French romantic artist painted “The Tiger Hunt” and “The Massacre at Chios”
The Massacre at Chios The Massacre at Chios The Massacre at Chios () is the second major oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. The work is more than four meters tall, and shows some of the horror of the wartime destruction visited on the Island of Chios in the Chios massacre. A frieze-like display of suffering characters, military might, ornate and colourful costumes, terror, disease and death is shown in front of a scene of widespread desolation. Unusually for a painting of civil ruin during this period, "The Massacre at Chios" has no heroic figure to counterbalance the crushed victims, and there
The Massacre at Chios the same year. The campaign resulted in the deaths of twenty thousand citizens, and the forced deportation into slavery of almost all the surviving seventy thousand inhabitants. Delacroix had been greatly impressed by his fellow Parisien Théodore Géricault's "The Raft of the Medusa", a painting for which he himself modeled as the young man at the front with the outstretched arm. The pyramidal arrangement that governs Géricault's painting is similarly seen with the figures in the foreground of "The Massacre at Chios". On this unlikely layout of characters, Delacroix commented, "One must fill up; if it is less natural, it