Apollo

Rivière, Briton (1840-1920)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1874
Height:
113.0 cm  (44 1/2 in.)
Width:
184.0 cm  (72 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Bury Art Museum
    [Museum inv. no.: 0097:1901]

Description

This painting closely illustrates lines spoken by the chorus in the play 'Alcestis' by Euripides. The lines are:- 'Apollo’s self/ Deigned to become a shepherd in thine halls/ And tune his lays along the woodland slopes/ Whereat entranced the spotted lynxes came,/ To mingle with thine flocks; from Othry’s glen/ Trooped tawny lions; e’en the dappled faun/ Forth from the shelter of her pinewood haunts/ Tripped to the music of the Sun-God’s lyre'.

Iconclass

92B373
Apollo playing the lyre, Apollo Citharoedus

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 2

RIdIM record id

5519

Data provider

Art UK