material used: oil paint / depicts: cadaver

instance of: painting (152) | polyptych (1)

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (1) | Charles X of France (1) | Louis Philippe I (1) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Comité grec de Paris (1)

owned by: France (8) | Gustave Doré (1) | Toulouse (1) | Jean-Baptiste Faure (1) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1) | Louisine Havemeyer (1) | Daniel Halévy (1) | Armand Jean de Vignerot du Plessis (1) | Louis-François Bertin (1) | Peter Arrell Brown Widener (1) | William Holwell Carr (1) | Alfred Vaudoyer (1) | Geneviève Bréton (1) | Park Ji-min (1) | Fabrizio Valguarnera (1)

movement: academic art (12) | Romanticism (9) | neoclassicism (8) | Orientalism (7) | Symbolism (6) | mannerism (3) | classicism (2) | Venetian school (2) | Dutch Golden Age painting (2) | Baroque (1) | Impressionism (1) | Naturalism (1) | Flemish Primitives (1) | flexibility (1) | Egyptian Revival (1)

genre: history painting (39) | nude (22) | mythological painting (21) | religious art (20) | genre art (14) | allegory (9) | still life (8) | portrait (3) | military art (3) | battle painting (2) | interior view (2) | Orientalism (1) | landscape art (1) | miniature (1) | trompe-l'œil (1) | figurative art (1) | three-quarter portait (1) | half-length portrait (1)

based on: death of Cleopatra (8) | Metamorphoses (3) | None (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | Old Testament (1) | Greek mythology (1) | Aeneid (1) | July Revolution (1) | Battle of Nancy (1) | The Tiger Hunt (1) | Third Siege of Missolonghi (1) | Death of Sardanapalus (1) | Chios Massacre (1) | Ab urbe condita libri (1) | Battle of Taillebourg (1) | 1 Samuel (1) | Amazonomachy (1) | Saint George and the Dragon (1)

artist: Eugène Delacroix (7) | Arnold Böcklin (5) | Jacques-Louis David (4) | Jacek Malczewski (4) | Francisco Goya (3) | Théodore Géricault (3) | Gustave Moreau (3) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (3) | Peter Paul Rubens (2) | Jacopo Tintoretto (2) | Édouard Manet (2) | Chaim Soutine (2) | Théodore Chassériau (2) | Eugène Fromentin (2) | Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (2) | Fernand Cormon (2) | Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (2) | Évariste Vital Luminais (2)

part of the series: Isle of the Dead (5) | Marriage à-la-mode (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (35) | Musée d'Orsay (17) | Museum of the History of France (10) | National Museum in Warsaw (7) | Musée des Augustins (7) | Mauritshuis (6) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (4) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (4) | Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon (4) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (4) | Museo del Prado (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | National Gallery (2) | Rijksmuseum (2) | Kunstmuseum Basel (2) | Goya Museum (2) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (2) | Musée Gustave-Moreau (2)

location: Musée d'Orsay (17) | Mauritshuis (6) | Galerie des Batailles (6) | Room 702 (5) | Room 700 (5) | National Museum in Warsaw (4) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (4) | Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon (4) | Musée des Augustins (4) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (4) | Museo del Prado (3) | Louvre Palace (3) | museum's storage space (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | National Gallery (2) | Rijksmuseum (2) | Kunstmuseum Basel (2) | Goya Museum (2)

part of: Isle of the Dead (2)

country of origin: Switzerland (5) | France (4) | Italy (3) | United States of America (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1808 (3) | Strasbourg (2) | Salon of 1864 (2) | Salon of 1824 (2) | L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (2) | Salon of 1874 (2) | Salon of 1875 (2) | Salon of 1837 (2) | Europeana 280 (2) | Salon of 1810 (2) | Salon of 1783 (2) | Salon of 1836 (2) | San Francisco (1) | Warsaw (1) | Tokyo (1) | Budapest (1) | Verona (1) | Madrid (1)

main subject: death of Cleopatra (8) | hunting (6) | death (5) | lamentation of Christ (2) | Jesus Christ (1) | theater (1) | Fall of Constantinople (1) | Chios Massacre (1) | Saint George and the Dragon (1) | Spanish-style bullfighting (1) | Madonna and Child (1) | David and Goliath (1) | Ages of Man (1) | martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (1)

location of final assembly: Paris (3) | Rome (3) | Madrid (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (1)