Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha, 1827, Lithograph; first state of two, Sheet: 16 × 11 in. (40.6 × 27.9 cm), Prints, Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris), The Oriental subjects of early-nineteenth-century authors provided a source of inspiration for Romantic painters. Lord Byron's Giaour was a favorite of both Géricault and Delacroix. Byron claimed that the tale of a tragic love triangle, involving the Giaour (infidel), the Pasha Hassan, and the Pasha's beautiful concubine, was based on the story of a young Venetian overheard in a Levantine coffee house
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