"It's a still image, but I see it in motion."
Curator Asher Miller on "The Abduction of Rebecca" by Eugène Delacroix.
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This painting has more to do with the act of painting than with the actual narrative
"It's a still image, but I see it in motion."
Asher Miller
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Asher Miller
Associate Curator, Department of European Paintings
Associate Curator, Department of European Paintings
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Eugène Delacroix
1846