Paulus Bor – The Disillusioned Medea – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435713
This painting, one of Bor’s finest works, dates from about 1640. Its subject and its relationship to a similar picture in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, have been debated, but it is likely that the two canvases were painted as a pair and depict the complementary stories of the disillisioned Medea and Cydippe with Acontius’s apple (see fig
that the same brocade material is seen in Bor’s "Magdalen" (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
