Eugène Delacroix - The rape of Sabine women 1850

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The rape of Sabine women 1850

The rape of Sabine women 1850
oil/canvas
Zamek Królewski na Wawelu, Krakow, Poland

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Episode from myth passed on by Livius and Plutarch, about the rape of the Sabine women by Romulus’s Roman soldiers. Probably a draft for a larger painting.