"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

#ChthonicThursday: Jean Restout’s “Orpheus in the Underworld”

Jean Restout I (1663-1702) was a French baroque painter, and one of his most notable works is “Orpheus in the Underworld to Demand the Return of Eurydice, or Music” (1763), currently preserved at the Louvre Museum.

Today on my Patreon we take a look at this work.

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