By Permission of the Trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery
By Permission of the Trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery
According to Wethey, The Paintings of Titian: Complete Edition, III p. 174, the Rape of Europa in the Dulwich Gallery is an eighteenth century sketch copy of the original Rape of Europa, now in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The story appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses; the cattle were driven down from the mountains; Jupiter mingled with them in the form of a white bull. Europa sat on his back, and was carried out to sea with her garments fluttering behind her in the wind.
Ruskin also seems to have in mind in his comments here the views of Reynolds on Bacchus and Ariadne in Discourse Eight.
Copy after Titian 18th C.
Europa on the Bull 18th Century
Oil on canvas, 46x55.5cm
Further Comments: This is an eighteenth century copy of the original by Titian, and appeared in the 1926 Catalogue of the Dulwich Gallery. The original was painted for Phillip II, King of Spain and is now in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA.
Collection: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London