John Downman, 1750–1824, British, The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies, 1781
- Title:
The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies
- Date:
- 1781
- Medium:
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 20 x 25 1/2 inches (50.8 x 64.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black paint, lower left: "J[...] Downman | pinxit 1781"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.243
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.243FR
- Subject Terms:
- ghost | light | literary theme | mask (costume) | religious and mythological subject | serpent | snake | white (color) | women
- Associated People:
- Furies
Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon and queen of Mycenae (or sometimes Argos) in ancient Greek legend
Furies, Dirae (Erinyes), Eumenides; 'Furie' (Ripa) - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:750
- Export:
- XML
Malcolm Cormack, A Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 88-89, N590.2
Malcolm Cormack, A Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 88-89, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Angus Trumble, The Finger : A Handbook, , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2010, p. 156, GT498.F46 T78 2010 (YCBA)
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