Ovid among the Scythians, 1862, Oil on paper, laid down on wood, 12 5/8 x 19 3/4 in. (32. 1 x 50. 2 cm), Paintings, Eugene Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798?1863 Paris), This is the final work Delacroix devoted to a theme that had first attracted him in 1835. It depicts the exiled poet Ovid, who in A. D. 8 was banished from Rome to the coast of the Black Sea, at present-day Constantsa, Romania