(b. 1798, Charenton-Saint-Maurice, d. 1863, Paris)
Apollo Slays Python (detail)
1850-51
Oil on mounted canvas
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The subject, which Delacroix took from Ovid's Metamorphoses, is effectively the victory of Good over Evil. But it takes the form of beauty vanquishing the ugly and genius dispelling stupidity.
