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The Abduction of Rebecca
A work by Eugène Delacroix, master of French Romanticism, drawn from a scene in Walter Scott’s novel Ivanhoe. Intense colour and turbulent movement fill the canvas — the very spirit of Romanticism.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Date
- 1846
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 39 1/2 x 32 1/4 in. (100.3 x 81.9 cm)
- On view
- Gallery 801
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