Hercule ramenant Alceste du fond des Enfers by Eugène Delacroix

Painting of a muscular hero carrying a limp woman in white cloth, with a kneeling crowned figure, a smoking altar and dogs.

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A small oil sketch in a gilded arched frame shows a muscular, bearded hero carrying a limp, pale woman wrapped in white cloth across his shoulder. A crowned figure in a red and gold cloak kneels at left beside a smoking altar, while a white dog and a dark hound appear in the foreground. The painting is an 1852 work by Eugène Delacroix, titled Hercule ramenant Alceste du fond des Enfers.

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1852

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