ORPHEUS AND ORPHISM: MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN ROMAN TIMES 355Spring: Orpheus and Eurydice. By Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863); oil on canvas, 1836, 78 X 65V4
in. Eurydice falls as a companion holds her and looks in horror at the snake gliding into the
undergrowth at the bottom right corner. Orpheus with his lyre approaches from the left, and
another nymph looks on in fear on the right, kneeling like the figure of Eurydice in Poussin's
painting of the same subject. This painting, left unfinished at the artist's death, is one of a se-
ries of the Four Seasons with mythological subjects (Summer: Diana and Actaeon; Autumn: Bac-
chus and Ariadne; Winter: Juno and Aeolus). (Sào Paulo, Museu de Arte de Sâo Paulo.)