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Spring: Orpheus Coming to the Aid of Eurydice

Pierre Andrieu (French, 1821–1892)
After: Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)

Medium/Technique Oil on paperboard
Dimensions 28.9 x 24.8 cm (11 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number21.1455
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

DescriptionAfter a painting by Delacroix in the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
InscriptionsStamped, lower left: VENTE / ANDRIEU / E. DELACROIX
ProvenanceMay 6-7, 1892, Pierre Andrieu atelier sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 184, to Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York (stock no. 2185). 1921, gift of William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 7, 1921)