Count Demetrius de Palatiano in Suliot Costume (not dated): Art, History and Details

Count Demetrius de Palatiano in Suliot Costume (not dated) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The Greek war of independence in the 1820s was a source of great interest for the rest of Europe. The exotic costumes of Greek soldiers, or Palikares, were popular subjects for artists. Count Palatiano was a flamboyant Greek aristocrat who often posed for Delacroix and his colleagues in Paris.

Object facts

• Title: Count Demetrius de Palatiano in Suliot Costume
• Date: not dated
• Creator attribution: Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• Dimensions: Unframed: 40.7 x 33.2 cm (16 x 13 1/16 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1973.33

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• E.V. Thaw & Co., invoice, March 8, 1973, in CMA curatorial file.
• Galerie Schmit. Les impressionnistes et leurs précurseurs; exposition, 17 mai - 17 juin 1972. 1972.
• Lee Johnson, letter to Sherman E. Lee, Sept. 23, 1974, in CMA curatorial file.

View the collection record

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