# The Disillusioned Medea \("The Enchantress"\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOR, Paulus]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 156 x 112 cm ## Commentary The Disillusioned Medea \("The Enchantress"\) c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 156 x 112 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting and a similar painting in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Cydippe with Acontius's Apple, were painted as a pair depicting complementary stories, as told in Ovid's Heroides. ## Related artworks - [Ariadne]() - [Bacchus]() - [Cydippe with Acontius's Apple]() - [Jesus among the Doctors]() - [Seated Nude Bathing by a Stove]() - [The Annunciation]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()