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The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846
The Abduction of Rebecca by Eugène Delacroix: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1903
What to notice
Follow Rebecca’s body upward amid rearing horse, twisting captors, and diagonal weapons; warm color and compressed action make escape feel dangerously unstable.
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Delacroix painted The Abduction of Rebecca in 1846 in oil on canvas. Drawn from Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, the scene compresses rearing horse, twisting captors, and the lifted woman into a turbulent arrangement driven by diagonals and color.
Source institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rights status: Public Domain / The Met Open Access
Rights status: Public Domain / The Met Open Access
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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