Angelica saved by Ruggiero

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Angelica saved by Ruggiero

Artist : Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Modèles : Hippogriffe

Roger

Angélique

Relationship with : Ludovico Ariosto (L'Arioste)

Date : between 1819 and 1839

Dimensions : 40 cm x 48 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Purchase (1918)

National Gallery
Academicians and landscape Painters
Main Building - First Floor - Section 41

Item 17 on 24
French Painting
Painting (Th?me mythologique)

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France

Description

The hero, Ruggiero, mounted on a hippogriff (a mythological animal which was half horse and half griffin), saves the captive Angelica from a sea monster. The subject comes from the 16th-century epic poem, "Orlando Furioso", by Ariosto.

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