Rebecca and the Wounded Ivanhoe

Eugène Delacroix

1823

Rebecca and the Wounded Ivanhoe is an 1823 oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. It features a scene from the 1819 novel Ivanhoe by the British writer Walter Scott. Based on Chapter 29, it features a wounded Ivanhoe straining to get out of his sickbed while Rebecca describes the raging battle outside to him. The two are imprisoned at the time in the castle of Torquilstone.

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