Apelles Painting Campaspe in the Presence of Alexander the Great
| Apelles Painting Campaspe in the Presence of Alexander the Great | |
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| Artist | Jacques-Louis David |
| Year | c.1814 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, history painting |
| Dimensions | 96.5 cm × 136.2 cm (38.0 in × 53.6 in) |
| Location | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille |
Apelles Painting Campaspe in the Presence of Alexander the Great (French: Apelle peignant Campaspe en présence d'Alexandre is a c.1814 history painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. [1] Based on a story by Pliny the Elder, if depicts the artist Apelles working on a painting of Alexander the Great and his mistress Campaspe. Alexander has just taken a break from posing to examine the protests of the painting. [2]
Neoclassical in style, it differed sharply from the preliminary sketch.[3] Some sources date the painting significantly later, around 1819, by which time David was living in exile in Brussels following the Bourbon Restoration. [4]
Today the painting is in the collection of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille. [5]
References
Bibliography
- Bryson, Norman. Hersilia's Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France.
- Crow, Thomas. Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820. Princeton University Press, 2023.
- Moore, Kenneth Royce (ed.) Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great. Brill, 2018.
