File:Eugène Delacroix - Ovide chez les Scythes (1862).jpg

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Eugène Delacroix, Ovid among the Scythians, 1862, Oil on wood, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Eugène Delacroix: Ovid Among the Scythians  wikidata:Q20167046 reasonator:Q20167046
Artist
Eugène Delacroix  (1798–1863)  wikidata:Q33477 s:fr:Auteur:Eugène Delacroix q:en:Eugène Delacroix
 
Eugène Delacroix
Alternative names
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
Description French painter, drawer, aquarellist and photographer
Date of birth/death 26 April 1798 Edit this at Wikidata 13 August 1863 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Charenton-Saint-Maurice Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1815 Edit this at Wikidata–1863 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris, United Kingdom, France, Algeria, Morocco, Netherlands (1839), Belgium
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q33477
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
French:
Ovide chez les Scythes

Ovid among the Scythians
title QS:P1476,fr:"Ovide chez les Scythes"
label QS:Lfr,"Ovide chez les Scythes"
label QS:Lde,"Ovid bei den Skythen"
label QS:Len,"Ovid among the Scythians"
Part of Ovid Among the Scythians Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre history painting Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Ovid Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1862
date QS:P571,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on paper mounted on wood
Dimensions height: 32.1 cm (12.6 in); width: 50.2 cm (19.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,32.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,50.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
room 801
Accession number
2008.101
Credit line Wrightsman Fund, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 2008
Notes
  • This is one of a number of late easel pictures in which Eugène Delacroix returned to themes previously elaborated in decorative programs. Delacroix first contemplated the subject of Ovid among the Scythians in about 1835, and his first treatment of it was in a pendentive for his decoration for the Palais Bourbon, Paris. He painted this work in 1862, the year before his death, no doubt to tempt a private collector, at a moment when he was attracting the admiration of the painters who later came to be identified with Impressionism. Its freedom of execution imparts an immediacy of touch and expression more typical of a sketch than a finished painting.
  • When the largest version of Ovid among the Scythians (National Gallery, London) was exhibited at the 1859 Paris Salon, the unusual composition and strange scale of the figures provoked criticism, even among Delacroix's admirers such as Baudelaire and Gautier, although artists like Edgar Degas were deeply impressed. In this variant, Delacroix more closely integrated the figures and landscape and rectified the problems of scale.
References
Source/Photographer 1. Met Museum (Timeline of Art History)
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 439631)
Other versions
  • the same motif by Eugène Delacroix in the National Gallery, London (1859)
    the same motif by Eugène Delacroix in the National Gallery, London (1859)

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