The Abduction of Rebecca
by DELACROIX, Eugène, Oil on canvas, 105 x 81,5 cm
Delacroix’s treatment of subjects from fashionable works frequently raised critical hackles, and he was assailed in the name of good taste, the Beautiful, and the Ideal. A notable victim of such disparagement was the scene drawn from Scott’s Ivanhoe. The version of the The Abduction of Rebecca, now in the Louvre, was exhibited at the 1859 Salon, and shows Rebecca carried off by Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, while in the background flames engulf Torquilstone Castle.