Boreas Abducting Orithyia

Boreas Abducting Orithyia
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Artist
nationality
French
birth-death
1640-1720
Creation date
Collection
European
Materials
bronze
Dimensions
H: 42 in.
Currently On View
Location
Charles O. McGaughey Gallery
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. August Hardee
Accession number
74.674
Gallery Label

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Boreas, god of the cold north wind, failed to win the beautiful Orithyia with gentleness. Driven into a stormy mood, he swept down and abducted her. Like its pendant, Pluto Abducting Proserpine, this bronze is a smaller version of a sculpture made for the gardens of Versailles, outside Paris.

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