VOUET, Simon
(b. 1590, Paris, d. 1649, Paris)

The Rape of Europa

c. 1640
Oil on canvas, 179 x 142 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Suggested by its subject, style and size, this canvas may have formed part of one of the major iconographical programmes for decorative schemes in palace interiors in which Vouet was extremely successful.




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