#art pompier

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Jean-Léon Gérôme Retour de la chasse, Circassian à l'abreuvoir ca. 1877

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, L'Innocence and Youth (1893)

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John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)

Orestes Pursued by the Furies, 1921. Oil on canvas 347.9 × 317.5 cm (11.4 × 10.4 ft). Current location Museum of Fine Arts

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905)

The Remorse of Orestes, or Orestes Pursued by the Furies, 1862. Oil on canvas 227 cm (89.3 in) x 278 cm (109.4 in) . Current location Chrysler Museum of Art

A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "the Erinyes, that under earth take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath”

Relative: very late caravaggism - L'art pompier

Final play of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, The Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες, Eumenídes)

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Alexandre Cabanel - The Daughter of Jephthah

1879 / oil on canvas / 100 cm x 64 cm / Private Collection

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William-Adolphe Bougereau - A Soul Brought to Heaven

c. 1878 / oil on canvas / 180 cm x 275 cm / Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord (Périgueux, France)

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Charles Gleyre and Leon Dussart - Lost Illusions

1865-1867 / oil on canvas / 86.5 cm × 150.5 cm / The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, US)

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Eugene de Blaas - The Love Letter

1904 / oil on canvas mounted on masonite / 88.9 cm × 116.8 cm