The Babylonian Captivity (painting)

The Babylonian Captivity is an 1838–1847 painting by Eugène Delacroix for the ceiling of the Assemblée nationale's library in the Palais Bourbon in Paris.

It interprets Psalm 137: 1-2 but is an allegorical Romantic interpretation rather than a religious one - Delacroix (an admirer of the Theist Voltaire) uses it as a motif of longing and nostalgia with figures lost in thought and sees its setting in Babylon on the Euphrates through an Orientalising lens.

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