# Musidora, in Romanticism

Thomas Sully painted this in 1813–35, aged about 30. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Musidora, the heroine of a passage in James Thomson’s poem The Seasons, undresses to bathe in a secluded woodland stream, unaware that she is being watched, as the poem tells.

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## The work

- Date: 1813–35
- Medium: Oil on wood
- Dimensions: 28 1/8 x 22 1/2 in. (71.4 x 57.2 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21.48
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Thomas Sully](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-sully), American, 1783–1872

Sully was taken from England to America as a child by his actor parents and settled in Philadelphia in 1808. After brief study with Gilbert Stuart, he went to London, where he worked under Benjamin West and came under the influence of Thomas Lawrence.

7 works in the collection.

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