BOR, Paulus
(b. 1605, Amersfoort, d. 1669, Amersfoort)

The Disillusioned Medea ("The Enchantress")

c. 1640
Oil on canvas, 156 x 112 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This painting and a similar painting in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Cydippe with Acontius's Apple, were painted as a pair depicting complementary stories, as told in Ovid's Heroides.




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