Ovid among the Scythians
Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)
Original Dimensions: 12 5/8" x 19 3/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1862) "This is the final work Delacroix devoted to a theme that had first attracted him in 1835. It depicts the exiled poet Ovid, who in A.D. 8 was banished from Rome to the coast of the Black Sea, at present-day Constantsa, Romania. He was treated with kindness by the Scythians, who are shown feeding him and expressing mare’s milk for him to drink. This painting reprises a larger composition that Delacroix exhibited at the Salon of 1859 (now National Gallery, London). Reviews were mixed, but its admirers included Edgar Degas and the critic Charles Baudelaire, who wrote "The mind sinks into it with a slow and appreciative rapture…"" - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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