material used: canvas / genre: history painting

instance of: painting (625) | cyclorama (2) | sketch (2) | anonymous work (1) | painting series (1) | artwork original version (1)

commissioned by: Napoleon (3) | Louis Philippe I (3) | Louis XIV of France (2) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (2) | Salon of 1881 (2) | Louis XVI of France (1) | Sophie of Württemberg (1) | Marie de' Medici (1) | Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (1) | William I of the Netherlands (1) | Louis Phélypeaux, marquis de La Vrillière (1) | Joaquim Inácio Ramalho (1) | Thomas Wilson (1)

owned by: France (12) | Jacques-Louis David (2) | Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer (2) | Sabadell Art Museum (2) | Ajuntament de Sabadell (2) | Poland (1) | Russia (1) | Rennes (1) | Hamburg (1) | Palace of Versailles (1) | Napoleon III (1) | Toulouse (1) | Frederick II of Prussia (1) | Édouard Manet (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Heinrich von Brühl (1) | Benjamin West (1) | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (1)

movement: academic art (26) | neoclassicism (16) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (8) | Orientalism (7) | Romanticism (6) | Art Nouveau (5) | Dutch Golden Age painting (5) | mannerism (3) | classicism (3) | Venetian school (3) | Romantic painting (3) | Baroque (2) | Caravaggisti (2) | rococo (2) | Troubadour style (2) | Egyptian Revival (2) | Cubism (1) | Neoclassical architecture (1)

named after: Charles XII of Sweden (1)

based on: death of Cleopatra (20) | Vita Nuova (2) | Ab urbe condita libri (2) | Don Quixote (1) | New Testament (1) | Hamlet (1) | Franco-Prussian War (1) | Orlando Furioso (1) | Aeneid (1) | Commentarii de Bello Gallico (1) | Battle of Thermopylae (1) | July Revolution (1) | French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1) | Horatii (1) | Battle of Magenta (1) | Augustan History (1) | Rape of the Sabine Women (1) | Chios Massacre (1)

artist: anonymous (18) | Jan Matejko (13) | Eduardo de Martino (12) | Peter Paul Rubens (11) | Eugène Delacroix (11) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (10) | Jacques-Louis David (9) | Horace Vernet (7) | Georges Rouget (7) | Henryk Siemiradzki (6) | Antoine-Jean Gros (6) | Victor Meirelles (6) | Kristian Zahrtmann (6) | Carlos Balliester (6) | Rembrandt (5) | Hans von Aachen (5) | Francesco Hayez (5) | Lawrence Alma-Tadema (5)

part of the series: Marie de' Medici cycle (4) | Watson and the Shark (3) | The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (2) | Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1)

depicts: woman (103) | man (88) | horse (50) | soldier (41) | cadaver (36) | Cleopatra (31) | nudity (31) | long hair (30) | breast (27) | drapery (26) | suicide (25) | toplessness (25) | sitting (25) | Napoleon (24) | bed (24) | child (23) | sky (22) | cavalry (19)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (76) | Museum of the History of France (70) | Museu Histórico Nacional collection (66) | National Museum in Warsaw (35) | Musée d'Orsay (21) | Rijksmuseum (19) | Hermitage Museum (12) | Musée des Augustins (12) | Statens Museum for Kunst (11) | private collection (11) | Museo del Prado (9) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (9) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (8) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (8) | Condé Museum (7) | National Gallery (6) | Tretyakov Gallery (6) | Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes (5)

location: National Historical Museum (68) | Rijksmuseum (19) | museum's storage space (19) | Musée d'Orsay (17) | National Museum in Warsaw (16) | Piazzetta (13) | Museum of the History of France (12) | Hermitage Museum (11) | Statens Museum for Kunst (10) | Louvre Palace (10) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (9) | Musée des Augustins (9) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (8) | Museo del Prado (8) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (8) | Galerie des Batailles (8) | Room 702 (8) | Condé Museum (7)

part of: Dance amongst swords (4) | The Abduction of the Sabine Women (2) | Proclamation of the German Empire (1) | Watson and the Shark (1) | Marie de' Medici cycle (1) | Consul Titus Manlius Torquatus laat zijn zoon onthoofden en Aeneas bij Latinus (1)

country of origin: United States of America (21) | Brazil (12) | France (11) | Spain (8) | Denmark (5) | Italy (5)

exhibition history: L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (21) | Salon of 1808 (12) | Marinhas – De Martino (12) | Exposição Paisagens Cariocas (11) | Salon of 1837 (7) | Salon of 1827 (6) | Salon of 1810 (6) | Europeana 280 (5) | Salon of 1831 (4) | Salon of 1819 (4) | Salon of 1817 (4) | Salon of 1849 (3) | Salon of 1838 (3) | None (3) | Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon (2) | Salon of 1789 (2) | Salon of 1822 (2) | Salon of 1833 (2)

main subject: death of Cleopatra (20) | the continence of Scipio (6) | rape of Lucretia (6) | suicide of Lucretia (5) | Rape of the Sabine Women (2) | Independence of Brazil (2) | Cleopatra (1) | Rio de Janeiro (1) | Battle of Somosierra (1) | Battle of Narva (1) | Fall of Constantinople (1) | abolitionism (1) | Battle of Trafalgar (1) | Battle of Tours (1) | Phocion (1) | Greek War of Independence (1) | French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1) | Treaty of Paris (1)

donated by: bequest (1) | heir (1) | Juan José Zapater Rodríguez (1)

location of final assembly: Brazil (41) | Rio de Janeiro (13) | Paris (4) | Rome (3) | Minas Gerais (3) | Espírito Santo (2) | United States of America (1) | Poland (1) | Germany (1) | Paraguay (1) | Florence (1) | Madrid (1) | Pernambuco (1) | Goiás (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (16)

time period: Baroque (1)