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Circe and Her Swine by Briton Rivière
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Briton Rivière
Circe sits on the terrace in a pink robe and looks at what she has made of Odysseus’ crew: a herd of pigs who look back at her with the eyes of men.
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Briton Rivière painted animals better than anyone in Victorian England, and when he came to the Odyssey he chose the moment the animals are men. Circe has given Odysseus’ companions her drugged wine and touched them with her wand, and here they are: a herd of pigs on her terrace, pink and black, nosing at the flagstones and looking up at the woman who did it. She sits in a pale robe with her hair down, quite calm, and looks back. In Homer the men keep their minds inside the bodies of pigs, and Rivière paints the eyes accordingly.
Painted in 1896, it is the gentlest picture of Circe in Victorian art and one of the strangest, because nothing in it is violent and everything in it is wrong. Our hand-painted reproduction is made in oil on canvas from the original, and the herd is painted pig by pig.
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