Medea about to Kill her Children - DELACROIX, Eugène - WGA
Medea about to Kill her Children by DELACROIX, Eugène
Medea about to Kill her Children by DELACROIX, Eugène

Medea about to Kill her Children

by DELACROIX, Eugène, Oil on canvas, 122 x 84 cm

As to the Medea in this painting, no heroine could better express the destructive power of women, a theme dear to the Romantics as it was to their successors, the Symbolists. Repudiated by Jason, Medea takes her revenge by killing the two children she has born to him; the subject is taken from Euripides’ tragedy, Medea.

This pcture is a reduced version, made in 1862, of Delacroix’s large painting (260 x 165 cm) exhibited at the Salon of 1838, now in the Mus�e du Lille.

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