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The Abduction of the Sabine Women – painted for Cardinal Luigi Omodei (1637-1638)

The Louvre Museum, Richelieu wing, 2d floor, room 14

Oil on canvas, 159 x 206 cm

The subject, taken from Plutarch’s life of Romulus, illustrates the moment when the Romans seize the Sabine women in order to take them for their wives.

The Abduction of the Sabine Women, 1637-1638 - Louvre
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, Louvre

Details of the painting:

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A previous version of this composition, The Abduction of the Sabine Women (circa 1634), is visible at the NYC MET.

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