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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/charles-ricketts-1843" aria-label="More by Charles Ricketts" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Charles Ricketts</a>
Orpheus and Eurydice
Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1914
<p>According to Greek mythology, Orpheus, the son of Apollo, rescued his wife Eurydice from death on condition that he did not look at her as she escaped. Inevitably he turned towards her and they kissed. Ricketts captures this passionate moment before Eurydice vanishes and Orpheus is left isolated and alone. The image thus concerns the slavery of attraction, as well as the temptation that Woman represented.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2004</em></p>
sculpture bronze
28 April 2003 – 18 April 2004
2004-04-18
28 April 2003 – 18 April 2004
2004-04-18
2003-04-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-04-28
Decadence
Collection based display
11 May 2016 – 25 September 2016
2016-09-25
11 May 2016 – 25 September 2016
2016-09-25
2016-05-11
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2016-05-11
Painting with Light: Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the modern age
Exhibition
Orpheus and Eurydice
object: 337 × 241 × 152 mm
Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1914
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<span class="text14">According to Greek mythology, Orpheus,</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text15">the son of Apollo, rescued his      wife </span><span class="text0">Eurydice from death on condition that he      did not look at her as she escaped. Inevitably he turned towards her and </span><span class="text15">they kissed. Ricketts captures this</span><span class="text0"> passionate moment before Eurydice vanishes and Orpheus is left      isolated and alone. The image thus concerns </span><span class="text14">the      slavery of attraction, as well as the</span><span class="text0"> temptation      that Woman represented.  </span>
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<p><b>N03005</b> ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE <i>c.</i> 1905–7</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘C R’ on back of base.
<br/>Bronze, 13 1/4×9 3/4×6 (33·5×24×15).
<br/>Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1914.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Francis Howard from the artist 1914.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> International Society, January–March 1907 (91); <i>A Century of Art</i>, Grafton Galleries, June–July 1911 (118); International Society, autumn 1914 (among works purchased for presentation to the Tate).</p>
<p>A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> of the same subject, but different in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>, was lent to the R.A., <i>Late Members</i>, 1933, by Sir Edmund Davis (339).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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