Theseus Conqueror of the Centaur Eurytus

Eugène Delacroix French

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The figures occur in a metope from the south side of the Parthenon frieze that is now in the British Museum. The lithograph reproduces in reverse a drawing that Delacroix would have made during his stay in London in 1825.
On his return from a trip to London in 1825, Delacroix executed this print after a drawing he had made of the Parthenon metope in the British Museum.

Theseus Conqueror of the Centaur Eurytus, Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris), Lithograph; only state

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