Horse Frightened by a Thunderstorm or White Horse Frightened by a ThunderstormElisabeth Hardouin-Fugier, Le peintre et l'animal en France au XIXe siècle, Éditions de l'Amateur, 2001, 367 p., page 147 is a watercolour on paper work by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix painted sometime between 1824 and 1829, most probably in 1824.Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, Hélène Lassalle, Agnes Mongan, Maurice Sérullaz, Ernst Goldschmidt, Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium). Société des expositions, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Ingres et Delacroix, dessins et aquarelles, Michèle Trinckvel, 1986, 303 p., p. 263.
Showing a horse frightened by lightning beside the seashore, it was probably inspired by Théodore Géricault's Isabelle the Horse Frightened by A Thunderstorm (National Gallery, London), painted during that artist's stay in England.Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault: Regard social et politique : le séjour anglais et les heures de souffrance, vol. 7 de Théodore Géricault, Bibliothèque des arts, 1997, 301 p. ( et 9782884530316), p. 27. Delacroix gave his watercolour to Baron Schwiter.Centenaire d'Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863: Musée du Louvre, mai-septembre 1963, Ministère d'État, Affaires culturelles, 1963, 172 p., p. 35. In 1934 the art collector Pál Majovszky donated it to the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, though it was loaned for the 1963 Paris exhibition on the centenary of Delacroix's death.Szépművészeti Múzeum, Bulletin: Közlemény (Hungary), no.s 25-27, p. 19, 1964.
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