OrpheusEurydice1.0251

OrpheusEurydice1.0251_Watts

Victorian Web
OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"

George Frederic Watts, "Orpheus and Eurydice", late 1860s, 22 x 30 inches in landscape format. Private collection of Ronald Chapman.

See the insightful analysis by Hilary Morgan at Victorian Web.

A powerful figure in a winged helmet reaches for a reclining woman amidst a dark, dramatic landscape

Watts also did a version in vertical format.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.