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- Title:
The Death of Orpheus
- Date:
- ca. 1770
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 37 1/2 x 51 inches (95.3 x 129.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.458
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.458FR
- Subject Terms:
- attack | death | forest | landscape | man | religious and mythological subject | water | women
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:942
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