Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable

Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable is an 1860 Orientalist painting by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the musée d'Orsay.

[1] The artist assisted in a stallion-fight during his time in Morocco, which left a deep impression and was mentioned in a letter to his friends on 8 February 1832.

Delacroix has set action in a stable, although the event that inspired the painting had taken place outdoors.

[2] The work was sold in Paris on 12 February 1872 and the following year John Saulnier acquired it in Bordeaux.

It was next recorded as being owned by Charles Hayem in 1885, then by Isaac de Camondo.