File:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Auguste écoutant la lecture de l'Enéide (c 1814).jpg
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Summary
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Augustus Listening to the Reading of the Aeneid
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Français : Auguste écoutant la lecture de l'Enéide
English: Augustus Listening to the Reading of the Aeneid
Nederlands: Augustus luisteet naar de lectuur uit de Aeneis |
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painting  |
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mythological painting |
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| Description |
English: The painting depicts (from right to left) the Roman Emperor Augustus, his sister Octavia the Younger, and his wife Livia listening to Virgil reading Book VI of the Aeneid. According to Aelius Donatus's biography of Virgil, when the poet read the lines about Octavia's son Marcellus who had died unexpectedly, Octavia fainted. |
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Augustus |
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| Date | circa 1814. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 138 cm (54.3 in); width: 142 cm (55.9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1836. |
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| Object history |
27 April 1867: purchased from à la vente de la succession Ingres, Hôtel Drouot, Paris. |
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BALaT object ID: 20024834 |
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| Source/Photographer | Own work by Rvalette. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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