2-705-596 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Crusaders Entering Constantinople', 1840, (1935). An episode of the Fourth Crusade, in which the Crusaders abandoned their plan to invade Muslim Egypt and Jerusalem, and instead sacked the Christian city of Constantinople in 1204. Photograph after 'Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople', painting by Eugene Delacroix completed in 1840, in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. From "Modern Masterpieces", Part 1. [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1935]