Ovid among the Scythians
Eugène Delacroix, 1859
From €29Museum-quality print, also on canvas and framed.
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Which size should I choose?
This work is available in 30 × 40 cm, 50 × 70 cm, 70 × 100 cm. As a guide: 30 × 40 cm (about 12 × 16 in) for shelves, corners or gallery walls; 50 × 70 cm (about 20 × 28 in) above a dresser, a headboard or a desk; 70 × 100 cm (about 28 × 39 in) as the centrepiece of a living room or the wall above the sofa. Below the buy buttons you can see it to scale above a 2-metre sofa.
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About the work
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Date
- 1859
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 87.6 × 130.2 cm
- Collection
- The National Gallery, London
- Print up to
- 70 × 100 cm
- Reference
- XDV-1289
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Delacroix reverses the roles: Ovid, exiled by Augustus, finds among the Scythians food and mare's milk, gestures of hospitality that Rome never offered him. The dark horse dominates the foreground, almost more of a protagonist than the poet himself, seated among the reddish figures. Critics in 1859 questioned its proportions, something Delacroix himself would try to correct in a second version years later. What does it say about a society that treats the stranger better than the genius it claims as its own?
