Selim and Zuleika (Q72753403)

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artist: Eugène Delacroix (Q33477)
collection: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
based on: The Bride of Abydos (Q7720031)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: EQHtARFFM4VtuA

catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/selim-and-zuleika

information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog

description: Like many of his contemporaries, Delacroix took inspiration from the best-selling Romantic poetry of Lord Byron. This painting is the last and most developed of the four canvases that the artist devoted to “The Bride of Abydos,” first published in 1813 and available in French translation by 1821.

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