0002Achilles_Westmacott

Victorian Web
OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"
Classical Sources:
Plato, Symposium, 179c-e
Diodorus Siculus, Bibl., 4.25.4, 81-82
Vergil, Georgics 4.315-558
Ovid Metamorphoses 10.1-85, 11.66
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2
Hyginus Poet. Astron. 2.7

George Frederic Watts, "Orpheus and Eurydice", late 1860s, 29 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches in vertical format. Private collection ofWilliam Connal, Jr. and John Reid, Glasgow.

See the insightful analysis by Anthea Brookeat Victorian Web.

A man with a leopard skin draped over his shoulder supports a fainting woman in a flowing white gown

Watts also did a version in landscape format, but at least 6 other treatments in all in this 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.