Orpheus and Eurydice out of Hell leads now preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, was exhibited at the Salon of 1861. It 's the first in a series of paintings that Corot devoted to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. As in other paintings belonging to the late stages of this artist, the landscape is no longer connoted in a strictly naturalistic, as is evident also in shades of color, who unfortunately can not take the reproductions on the web. Corot was a regular visitor to the opera house and it is not difficult to see a connection between the paintings which he dedicated to the Thracian singer and the resumption of ' Gluck's Orfeo in Paris in 1859.
However, the myth of Orpheus, whenever it is mentioned, is connected to a strong sense symbolic. In this painting the artist Orpheus is the icon par excellence, for an artist Corot is inextricably linked to nature, he nevertheless risemantizzata through color and the symbolism of myth. Orpheus rushes toward the light: without it there is no life, no inspiration.
Gluck, Orphée, What shall I do without Euridice , Kathleen Ferrier (English version, What is life )
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