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instance of: painting (84) | reredos (1)

commissioned by: Napoleon (2) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Louis XVI of France (1) | Louis Philippe I (1) | Marie de' Medici (1)

owned by: France (8) | Jacques-Louis David (1) | John Naylor (1) | Woodbury Langdon (1)

movement: neoclassicism (10) | Romanticism (4) | classicism (2) | Troubadour style (2) | Orientalism (1) | Neoclassical architecture (1) | academic art (1) | Flemish painting (1)

based on: Orlando Furioso (1) | Battle of Thermopylae (1) | July Revolution (1) | French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1) | Horatii (1) | Rape of the Sabine Women (1) | Chios Massacre (1) | Ab urbe condita libri (1) | Siege of Constantinople (1) | 1814 campaign in France (1) | Siege of Jaffa (1) | Head of a Woman (1) | The Funeral of Phocion (1) | Sardanapalus (1) | The Severed Heads (1) | The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1) | death of Cleopatra (1)

artist: Peter Paul Rubens (6) | Jacques-Louis David (5) | Eugène Delacroix (4) | Francisco Herrera the Elder (3) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (2) | Nicolas Poussin (2) | Nicolas Lancret (2) | Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (2) | Francisco de Zurbarán (2) | Charles Le Brun (2) | Paul Delaroche (2) | Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (2) | Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (2) | Hubert Robert (2) | Luis Tristán (2) | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (2) | Horace Vernet (1) | Théodore Géricault (1)

part of the series: Marie de' Medici cycle (4)

depicts: woman (21) | man (21) | horse (12) | soldier (10) | child (9) | cadaver (8) | nudity (7) | spear (7) | Alexander the Great (6) | beard (6) | angel (6) | landscape (5) | dress (5) | sitting (5) | standing (5) | seat (5) | dog (4) | Napoleon (4)

material used: oil paint (81) | canvas (76) | wood (4) | paper (1) | tempera (1) | oak (1)

location: Piazzetta (14) | Louvre Palace (9) | Room 702 (8) | Room 700 (8) | Room 934 (4) | Room 801 (4) | Room 724 (3) | Room 946 (3) | Room 914 (3) | Room 716 (2) | Room 825 (2) | Room 918 (2) | Paris (1) | Louvre Museum (1) | Musée d'Orsay (1) | Rijksmuseum (1) | Mauritshuis (1) | Gallery Prince Willem V (1)

part of: The Battle of San Romano (1) | Marie de' Medici cycle (1) | The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1)

country of origin: Italy (3) | France (3) | United States of America (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1808 (6) | L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (5) | Salon of 1831 (3) | Salon of 1819 (3) | Salon of 1827 (3) | Salon of 1789 (2) | Salon of 1833 (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | Tokyo (1) | Strasbourg (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | La Galerie du temps (1) | Salon of 1801 (1) | Salon of 1804 (1) | Salon of 1864 (1) | Salon of 1785 (1) | Salon of 1791 (1) | Salon of 1824 (1)

main subject: Phocion (1) | coronation of Napoleon I (1) | the continence of Scipio (1) | Rape of the Sabine Women (1) | Chios Massacre (1) | death of Cleopatra (1)

location of final assembly: Paris (2) | Rome (1) | Madrid (1)

Alexander before Achilles' Tomb

painting
by Hubert Robert (1754s)
Alexander the Great human clothing in the ancient world column pyramid landscape tomb Achilles ruins statue Heracles temple Roman temple

Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists Exhibiting at the Salon of 1824 at the Louvre January 15th 1825

painting
by François Joseph Heim (1825s)
Charles X of France Joseph-Ferdinand Lancrenon Nicolas-Antoine Taunay Gioachino Rossini Sosthène de La Rochefoucauld Jean-François Le Sueur Luigi Cherubini Charles de Maillé de La Tour-Landry Nicolas Gosse Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin Jean-Victor Bertin Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin René Théodore Berthon Alphonse de Cailleux Pierre Claude François Delorme Jean-Bruno Gassies Charles-René Laitié Jean Pierre Marie Jazet Daniel Saint Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers Paul Gayrard Pierre-Joseph Redouté Jean-Baptiste Isabey Léon Cogniet Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld Auguste Couder Louis Etienne Watelet Eugène Isabey David d'Angers Auguste Guenepin Jean-Antoine Constantin Guillaume Guillon-Lethière Hippolyte Le Bas Louis-Léopold Boilly Etienne-Barthélémy Garnier Abel de Pujol Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Jean-Victor Schnetz François-Louis Dejuinne Charles Dupaty Ambroise Louis Garneray Jean-Louis de Marne François-Frédéric Lemot Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot Virginie Ancelot Quatremère de Quincy Pierre Alexandre Tardieu Théophile Bra Nicolas Raggi Michel Martin Drolling François Kinson Jérôme-Martin Langlois Jan Frans van Dael Charles Giraud Louis Daguerre Louis Petitot Jean Baptiste Joseph Debay Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux François Joseph Heim Jean-Pierre Cortot Marie-Victoire Jaquotot Charles de Steuben Louis Ducis Antoine Ansiaux Pierre Cartellier Jacques-Philippe Le Sueur Antoine Vaudoyer Marie-Éléonore Godefroid Carle Vernet Jean-Nicolas Huyot Charles Thévenin Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier Charles Meynier Lizinska de Mirbel François Joseph Bosio François-Édouard Picot Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin Paul Delaroche Jean Alaux James Pradier Charles Nodier Horace Vernet Théodore Gudin Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Alphonse Legros Charles Marie Bouton Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor André Galle Louis Dupré Claude Ramey painting museum Louvre Museum Salon of 1824 The Raft of the Medusa Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit

Tomyris, Queen of the Scythes, Plunges the Head of the Dead Cyrus Into a Vessel of Blood

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1633s)
Tomyris queen regnant domestic worker vase dress dog tapestry Cyrus the Great head

The Continence of Scipio

painting
by Niccolò dell'Abbate (1555s)
clothing in the ancient world Scipio Africanus elderly woman see-through clothing standing barefoot drapery breast umbilicus nipple glabrousness contrapposto chignon kneeling beard man white hair male toplessness combat helmet fasces group of humans

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

painting
by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (1524)
Salome woman human head tray

Brother Juniper and the Beggar

painting
by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1646)
Franciscan gift landscape ruins beggar

The Return of Marcus Sextus

painting
by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1799)
cadaver pain woman

Liberty Leading the People

painting
by Eugène Delacroix (1830)
riot civil war liberty people barricade Notre-Dame de Paris multi-storey urban building île de la Cité Marianne dress phrygian cap tricolour flag of France rifle bayonet walking cadaver nudity pubic hair military personnel military uniform cuirass gaiters epaulette street child day pistol vest dress shirt trousers man worker top hat blunderbuss beard brown hair briquet banderole headscarf smoke crowd sky

The End of the Fire of the Opéra, Second Room of Palais-Royal, 8 June 1781

painting
by Hubert Robert
Second Salle du Palais-Royal

Death of Sardanapalus

painting
by Eugène Delacroix (1827)
Sardanapalus woman nudity enslaved person horse bed cushion half reclining man clothed male, naked female eunuch

The Healing of Saint Bonaventure by Saint Francis

painting
by Francisco Herrera the Elder (1628)
ecstasy Francis of Assisi man Bonaventure

Scène du massacre de la Saint-Barthélémy

painting
by Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (1836)
involuntary manslaughter man woman soldier firearm St. Bartholomew's Day massacre bed

The Coronation of Marie de' Medici in Saint-Denis

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1623s)
cardinal dog collar crown lace woman boy Marie de' Medici dress

La Générosité des dames romaines

painting
by Louis Gauffier (1790)

[no title]

painting
by Francesco Hayez (1832)
Mary, Queen of Scots group of humans court spinning wheel prayer

Napoleon harangues the 2nd Corps of the Grand Army on Lech Bridge in Augsburg on October 12, 1805

painting
by Pierre-Claude Gautherot (1808)

Saint Thomas of Villanova Giving Alms

painting
by Mateo Cerezo (17th century)
Thomas of Villanova archbishop Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine poverty angel crown gift lily architecture alms

Cloelia Passing the Tiber

painting
by Abraham van Diepenbeeck (17th century)
horse Cloelia woman broad-leaved tree ford man nudity Tiber

Emperor Domitian

painting
by Domenico Fetti (1616s)
Domitian

The Rape of the Sabine Women

painting
by Nicolas Poussin (1634)
Romulus Sabines Rome kidnapping woman combat violence soldier house temple Rape of the Sabine Women

1814, La Campagne de France

painting
by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1862s)
Napoleon Michel Ney Louis-Alexandre Berthier Antoine Drouot Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut horse Gaspard Gourgaud man general officer infantry marshal military officer

Alexander and Porus

painting
by Charles Le Brun (1660s)
Alexander the Great King Porus body armor shield cadaver helmet chariot horse Classical Greece spear violence

Le lion de Florence

painting
by Nicolas-André Monsiau (1801)
lion toddler woman maternal bond fear landscape bell tower

Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa

painting
by Antoine-Jean Gros (1804)
Napoleon Jaffa courtyard plague flag of France nudity military officer military uniform standing sitting kneeling lying man pubic hair

Leonidas at Thermopylae

painting
by Jacques-Louis David (1814)
Leonidas I Battle of Thermopylae

La Convalescence de Bayard

painting
by Pierre Révoil (1817)
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard bed reading music baldachin halberd woman bird window convalescence

The Apotheosis of Homer

painting
by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1827)
apotheosis Homer laurel wreath painter moustache clothing clothing in the ancient world Herodotus Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Menander Demosthenes Apelles Raphael Sappho Alcibiades Virgil Dante Alighieri Horace Peisistratos Lycurgus of Athens Torquato Tasso William Shakespeare Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Molière François Fénelon Cassius Longinus Luís de Camões Christoph Willibald von Gluck Alexander the Great Aristarchus of Samothrace Aristotle Michelangelo Phidias Pericles Socrates Plato Hesiod Pindar Aesop Orpheus temple

La Reddition de Grenade

painting
by Francisco Bayeu y Subías (1763)

Arrivée de Louis XIV au camp devant Maastricht

painting
by Adam Frans van der Meulen (1673)
Louis XIV of France Maastricht cannon cavalry dog broad-leaved tree landscape plain

Timoclea Before Alexander the Great

painting
by Domenichino (1615s)
Alexander the Great Timoclea

The Death of Saint Bruno

painting
by Vincenzo Carducci (1632s)
agony crucifix Carthusians book prayer candle

Death of St Bruno

painting
by Eustache Le Sueur (1645)
Bruno of Cologne death Carthusians prayer crucifix candle

Saint Bonaventure Receiving Communion from the Hands of an Angel

painting
by Francisco Herrera the Elder (1628)
Bonaventure communion angel religious servant altar crucifix priest

The Massacre at Chios

painting
by Eugène Delacroix (1824)
cadaver prisoner of war man woman child elderly Greeks nudity beard headscarf black hair moustache horse soldier soldier rifle Kilij ruins smoke conflagration sky turban cloud Chios massacre Aegean Sea shore equestrianism

The Disembarkation at Marseilles

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1622)
Marie de' Medici Eleanor de' Medici fleur-de-lis Neptune nereid Triton

The Continence of Scipio

painting
by Giambattista Pittoni (1733)
Scipio

Landscape with Diogenes

painting
by Nicolas Poussin (1648)
Diogenes of Sinope poverty child drink watercourse path broad-leaved tree city

Scène de la saint-Barthélemy by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury

painting
by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1833)
sword spear bed window St. Bartholomew's Day massacre globe chair

Saint Louis Giving Alms

painting
by Luis Tristán (1620s)
Louis IX of France poverty hand of justice crown alms

Cornelia, mother of the Gracchin

painting
by Joseph-Benoît Suvée (1795)
child man woman table seat statue

The Fight between Germany and From for the Rhine

painting
by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1736)
Germany France Rhine

The Completion of the Louvre. The Emperor Approving the Plans Presented by Monsieur Visconti.

painting
by Ange Tissier (1865)
Napoleon III Eugénie de Montijo Louis Visconti architect architectural drawing Achille Fould Napoléon Joseph Ney Félix d'Arjuzon seat sculpture Hector Lefuel

Bonaparte visiting the fountains of Moses in December 1798

painting
by Jean-Simon Berthélemy (1808)

The Consignment of the Regency

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1623s)
balustrade flag boy inaugural lecture Marie de' Medici soldier door

Alexander Entering Babylon

painting
by Charles Le Brun (1673)
Alexander the Great Babylon chariot Cortège soldier helmet shield spear elephant horse ewer Hanging Gardens of Babylon statue