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Circe

1885

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The story

Collier painted Homer's enchantress nude from behind, flanked by a tiger and an ocelot, with a puma and two boars behind them. It was a success at the Royal Academy's 1885 Summer Exhibition and later traveled to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

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Object details

Title: Circe
Artist: John Collier
Date: 1885
Culture: British
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Private collection (Ger Eenens Collection, Netherlands)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0599
Original image: 2000 × 1194 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

John Collier. Circe. 1885. Private collection (Ger Eenens Collection, Netherlands). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0599/