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Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763), Cymon and Iphigenia, ca. 1766
- Title:
Cymon and Iphigenia
- Date:
- ca. 1766
- Medium:
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions:
- 24 1/8 x 32 1/2 inches (61.3 x 82.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1986.31
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1986.31FR
- Subject Terms:
- babies | beauty | children | literary theme | love | mythology | novella | nude | religious and mythological subject | robe | shawls | sleeping | The Decameron (Boccaccio)
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4943
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Loyd Grossman, Benjamin West and the struggle to be modern, Merrell, London: New York, 2015, pp. 28, 86, 210, NJ18.W52 G76 2015 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Howard Oakley, Benjamin West and Modern History 1, , The Eclectic Light Company, February 3, 2020, Online, https://eclecticlight.co/2020/02/03/benjamin-west-and-modern-history-1/ [Website]
Helmut von Erffa, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986, p. 236, 265-6, 268, no. 196, NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
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