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Old man seated in a red chair dictating beside a young woman with a book, with a lute player and a dark painting behind them.

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Milton dictant à ses filles son poème épique, « Le paradis perdu », Eugène Delacroix (1827), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A dimly lit interior shows an elderly man in a dark coat and white collar seated in a red armchair beside a table with a flower arrangement. A young woman in a pale blue dress holds an open book and sits near him, while another woman with a lute looks on from the left beneath a dark painting of muscular figures. This work is Eugène Delacroix's Milton dictating to his daughters his epic poem Paradise Lost, dated 1827.

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