The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan

The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan is the title of three works by the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, produced in 1826, 1835 and 1856.

They all show a scene from Lord Byron's 1813 poem The Giaour, with the Giaour ambushing and killing Hassan, the Pasha, before retiring to a monastery.

In 1824, Delacroix recorded in his diary his experience of reading The Giaour and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,[3][4][5] probably in their 1819–1824 French translations by Amédée Pichot.

[1] In 1826, Delacroix completed his first painting of the combat of Giaour and Hassan, showing the two on horseback, fighting in a gorge.

[6] A Turk escorting Hassan kneels beside the Giaour's horse, trying to cut its legs with his knife.