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Ovid among the Scythians (1859 and 1862) is the title of two oil paintings by French artist Eugène Delacroix. The little famous second version was painted to integrate the figures and landscape and rectified the problems of scale of the first version which unusual composition and strange scale of the characters provoked negative criticism even among Delacroix’s admirers such as Baudelaire and Gautier although artists like Edgar Degas were deeply impressed.
