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Erminia and the Shepherds
Several of Delacroix’s paintings are on subjects from the Italian Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso’s epic poem Jerusalem Delivered from 1581 – a story about the battle between the mediaeval crusaders and the Muslim Saracens. In Tasso’s story, Erminia is a Syrian princess who has fallen in love with the Christian crusader Tancred. The painting shows a scene in which she is disguised as a knight to s…
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
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Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Creation date
- 1859
- 1859
Provenance
- Donated 1920 by Nationalmusei Vänner
Identifier
- NM 2246
- 19306
Extent
- Mått 82 x 104,5 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
Year
- 1859
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:17.635Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:26:48.685Z