Boreas Abducting Oreithyia (Q72753419)
Label from: English (en)
artist:
François Boucher (Q180932)
collection:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
mQHBzdzNNEtggw
catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/boreas-abducting-oreithyia
information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog
description: Failing to win the hand of the lovely Athenian princess Orethyia, one of the daughters of King Erechtheus, by gentle means, Boreas, the cold wind god of the North, decided to revert to his true nature of wildness and cold rage. The story is told by Ovid in the sixth book of the Metamorphoses, and Boucher admirably evokes the passion and fury of the tale. Boreas swoops down, concealed by dark and stormy clouds, and forcibly snatches up Oreithyia as she gathers flowers with her sisters.
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