“It’s a still image, but I see it in motion.”
Curator Asher Miller on The Abduction of Rebecca by Eugène Delacroix from 1846.
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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