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Ovid Among the Scythians

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1200: 97: 29: 378:, in his first Salon criticism, praised all the details in the picture: Ovid ("what noble elegance!"); the mare ("what color and air around it!"); the dog, which made him think of classical sculpture; the water ("a strange beauty"); and, above all, the landscape. In the catalog, by Delacroix himself, was written: "Some examine him with interest, others go home and offer wild fruit and mare's milk, etc., etc." 301:, walking or standing still – a child, an old man, a nursling in its mother's arms, soldiers, resting shepherds. And, dolefully stretched out on a gentle incline, swathed in drapery, lies the figure identified by the painting's title as Ovid. He appears like a fallen meteorite on whom converge the friendly but startled inhabitants of this savage country. Delacroix has given him the pose of a 393:
but a completed version which develops many elements of the London work. Delacroix painted it with more vivid colors, replaced the barbarian with a shield on the back by a woman bringing food, and also closely integrated the figures and landscape in a manner that is more in keeping with a historical
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was the author of the harshest criticism, calling the painting "a spectacle of irremissible decadence" and advising the painter "to return to the literary works that he loves and to the music for which he was certainly born". Baudelaire, in his last Salon criticism, called the painting "one of these
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Low but sometimes steep mountains covered with scrubby vegetation surround a still, shallow lake, boggy at its edges; scattered huts built precariously of wood and thatch suggest a pastoral and nomadic culture. In the foreground a man milks a large mare; behind him, various figures are casually
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of 1859, the last in which Delacroix participated. The composition reinterprets ideas that Delacroix had previously used in decorative compositions such as
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and rectified the problems of scale of the first version, which had an unusual composition and strange scale of the characters, provoking negative
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amazing works" and said that "Delacroix knows the design and painting". He also wrote a long essay on the life of an exiled poet and quoted
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people, the 1859 picture show the Scythians treating the poet with sympathy and curiosity, and is a fine treatment of the theme of
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and are very well portrayed in these two paintings by Delacroix. The second version, contrary to what one might think, is not an
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landscape. It was painted a year before his death, in 1862, most probably for a private collector. It was given to
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348: 181: 168:, executed in 1859 and 1862. The less famous second version was painted to integrate the figures and 1332: 1270: 1005: 981: 824: 801: 165: 107: 39: 734: 1405: 1339: 1215: 604: 498: 298: 247: 177: 1061: 832: 705: 685: 677: 669: 637: 629: 612: 579:, ed. W. Drost and U. Henninges, Heidelberg , p. 35. (See the review in p. 607 of this issue.) 531: 523: 462: 454: 1013: 75: 553:(The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd.), Vol. 137, No. 1111 (Oct., 1995), pp. 682–683. 502:. I. 2. 13–14) and the harsh climate, with cold, snow and ice (III. 8. 27–32, V. 2. 63–66; 652: 375: 256: 762: 588: 360: 314: 289: 196: 1354: 406:, "This is his late, final statement on a theme that interested him his whole life." 403: 365: 318: 302: 216: 161: 147: 1290: 356: 285: 208: 57: 626:
The simplest of signs: Victor Hugo and the language of images in France, 1850–1950
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Delacroix painted this subject first in 1844 as part of the decorations for the
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87.6 cm Ă— 130.2 cm (34.5 in Ă— 51.3 in)
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32.1 cm Ă— 50.2 cm (12.6 in Ă— 19.8 in)
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Rebels and martyrs: the image of the artist in the nineteenth century
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A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History
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to evoke "the landscape, its solitude, its calm charm".
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with its mountains was "universally" praised, while the
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Eugène Delacroix, 1798–1863: the prince of romanticism
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Eugène Delacroix
Oil on canvas
National Gallery
London

Eugène Delacroix
Oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
French
Eugène Delacroix
landscape
criticism
Charles Baudelaire
Théophile Gautier
Edgar Degas
ceiling
Palais Bourbon
Paris
Ancient Roman
Ovid
exiled
Augustus
Black Sea
Tomis
Scythia
Romania
Tristia
Epistulae ex Ponto

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