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The Abduction of Rebecca
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Abduction of Rebecca

1846
Eugène Delacroix visual detail
ArtistEugène Delacroix
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Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price $12,100 Dealer sale · Mar 2, 1903
+118.0% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1903 · $5,5501903 · $12,100
$6K1903
$12K1903
Last known price$12,1002 matched observed sales
Observed median$8,825
Observed sales2
Artist index181.3
1903-03-02Dealer sale$12,100.00
1903-02-26Dealer purchase$5,550.00
Artist index contextLatest public build 181.3 · base 100 · n=1.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
ArtworkSale dateHouseRealized USDMatch
The Entombment (after Peter Paul Rubens)
1836 · oil on canvas
1958-01-08—$16,000.0079%
The Entombment (after Peter Paul Rubens)
1836 · oil on canvas
1957-07-01—$6,000.0079%

Similarity score is descriptive evidence ranking, not a valuation model. Every row comes from the public-rights market boundary.

Provenance

Public
$56

$56

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Source provenance text

$56

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Exhibitions

Public
Source exhibition text

$56

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Throughout his career Delacroix was inspired by the novels of Sir Walter Scott, a favorite author of the French Romantics. This painting depicts a scene from Ivanhoe : the Jewish heroine Rebecca, who had been confined in the castle of Front de Boeuf (seen in flames), is carried off by two enslaved Muslim warriors commanded by the covetous Christian knight Bois-Guilbert. The contorted, interlocking poses and compacted space, which shifts abruptly from the elevated foreground to the fortress behind, create a sense of intense drama. Apart from the still life at the lower left, the only element of calm is Rebecca herself.

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Evidence state

2 observed sales · 2 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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