The Abduction of Orithyia

ca. 1730 (Baroque)

135.2 cm 98.8 cm

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This composition, a copy of a replica of around 1730 by the great Neapolitan artist Solimena after his own earlier painting of 1701, represents a scene adapted from "The Metamorphoses," the famous poem on the loves of the gods by the 1st-century Roman author Ovid. The north wi...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unkonwn] [1881 catalogue: no. 230; 1897 catalogue: no. 454]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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