The Flight of Florimell
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| Artist | Washington Allston |
| Year | 1819 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 91.4 cm × 71.1 cm (36.0 in × 28.0 in) |
| Location | Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan |
The Flight of Florimell is an 1819 oil painting by the American artist Washington Allston. It depicts a scene from The Faerie Queene by the Elizabethan Era English poet Edmund Spenser.[1][2] Romantic in style, it is distinctly Gothic in tone with a frightened heroine being pursued on horseback.[3]
Today the painting is in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan, having been acquired in 1944.[4]
