
The Bride of Abydos (French –La Fiancée d'Abydos) orSelim and Zuleika is the title of two paintings by the FrenchRomantic painterEugène Delacroix, one in theMuseum of Fine Arts of Lyon (pre-1849) and another in theLouvre (1843–1849).[1]
Both works show the characters Selim and Zuleika fromthe poem of the same name byLord Byron, written after he had swum the Hellespont between Abydos and Sestos in imitation ofLeander.
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