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| Keywords: Eugène Delacroix - Ovide chez les Scythes (1862).jpg Artwork Q7114124 Creator Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix Ovid among the Scythians 1862 Oil paper wood cm 32 1 50 2 Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery 801 2008 101 Credit line Wrightsman Fund in honor of Philippe de Montebello 2008 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 1 http //www metmuseum org/TOAH/hd/roma/ho_2008 101 htm Met Museum Timeline of Art History <br/>2 439631 Other versions <gallery> File Eugène Delacroix - Ovide chez les Scythes 1859 jpg the same motif by Eugène Delacroix in the National Gallery London 1859 </gallery> PD-old-100 Mythological paintings by Eugène Delacroix French paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Ovid Scythians in art Exiles Oil paintings of nature Paintings of people in nature 19th-century mountain paintings Small-sized paintings 1862 paintings Oil on paper | ||||
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