“It’s a still image, but I see it in motion.”
Curator Asher Miller on The Abduction of Rebecca by Eugène Delacroix from 1846.
Motion Picture
Asher Miller
2 min. watch
Contributors
Asher Miller
Associate Curator, Department of European Paintings
Associate Curator, Department of European Paintings
Photography by Paul Lachenauer
Art Mentioned
Eugène Delacroix
1846
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