genre: history painting / movement: academic art

instance of: painting (30) | drawing (2) | study (2)

commissioned by: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (2)

owned by: France (2) | Toulouse (1)

based on: death of Cleopatra (2) | Franco-Prussian War (1) | Aeneid (1) | Antony and Cleopatra (1) | Augustan History (1) | 1814 campaign in France (1) | Cultural depictions of Napoleon (1) | Study for "Slave Market" (1) | Study for "Slave Market at Rome" (1)

artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme (10) | Lawrence Alma-Tadema (4) | Jean-Paul Laurens (3) | Jules Lefebvre (2) | Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (2) | Juan Luna (1) | Alexandre Cabanel (1) | Thomas Couture (1) | Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1) | Fernand Cormon (1) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1) | Édouard Detaille (1) | Claudius Jacquand (1) | Jean-André Rixens (1) | Henri-Pierre Picou (1) | Jean-Joseph Weerts (1)

depicts: woman (13) | man (12) | cadaver (7) | toga (7) | column (6) | long hair (5) | sitting (5) | public nudity (5) | sky (4) | Cleopatra (4) | beard (4) | necklace (4) | clothed male, naked female (4) | platform (4) | horse (3) | suicide (3) | nudity (3) | umbilicus (3)

material used: oil paint (28) | canvas (26) | wood (2) | graphite (2) | wove paper (2) | pencil (1) | die (1) | ink (1) | cardboard (1) | quill (1)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (7) | Musée des Augustins (6) | Walters Art Museum (4) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Kunsthalle Hamburg (1) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Académie des Beaux-Arts (1) | Hearst Castle (1) | J. Paul Getty Museum (1) | private collection (1) | Phoenix Art Museum (1) | Clark Art Institute (1) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (1) | Yale University Art Gallery (1) | California Department of Parks and Recreation (1) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (1) | Musée de Picardie (1) | royal monastery of Brou (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (7) | Musée des Augustins (5) | Walters Art Museum (2) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Kunsthalle Hamburg (1) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Académie des Beaux-Arts (1) | Hearst Castle (1) | J. Paul Getty Museum (1) | Phoenix Art Museum (1) | Clark Art Institute (1) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (1) | Yale University Art Gallery (1) | Musée de Picardie (1) | royal monastery of Brou (1) | Salon rouge (1)

country of origin: France (4)

exhibition history: L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (2) | Salon of 1875 (2) | 1878 Paris World's Fair (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Salon of 1864 (1) | Salon of 1847 (1) | Salon of 1874 (1) | Salon of 1849 (1) | Salon of 1885 (1) | Salon of 1859 (1) | Salon of 1883 (1) | Salon of 1887 (1) | Salon of 1888 (1) | From Cranach to Monet. Highlights of the Perez Simon Collection (1)

main subject: death of Cleopatra (2) | Fall of Constantinople (1) | French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1)

location of final assembly: Paris (1) | Rome (1)