Shepherds Find Zenobia on the Banks of the Araxes
Zenobia found by Shepherds on the banks of the Araxes | |
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Zenobia Found by Shepherds on the Banks of the Araxes | |
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Year | 1850 |
Dimensions | 147 cm (58 in) × 113 cm (44 in) |
Identifiers | Joconde work ID: 50510011461 |
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Shepherds Find Zenobia on the Banks of the Araxes is an 1850 oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William Bouguereau, now in the Beaux-Arts de Paris.[1]
Its subject is drawn from Tacitus's Histories (XII.51), in which Rhadamistus, king of Armenia, tried to kill his wife Zenobia to prevent her falling into enemy hands and then threw her into the river Araxes before riding on. Still alive, she was found by shepherds "in a quiet backwater", who bandaged her wounds and took her to Artaxata, whence she travelled on to meet Tiridates.[1]
Preparatory drawings for the work survive in the École des beaux-arts and the Musée d'Orsay. Paul Baudry won the main Prix de Rome for 1850, but Bouguereau won a consolation second prize, which he used to pay for a stay at the Villa Medici.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Cat'zArts – Beaux-arts de Paris, l'école nationale supérieure" (in French). ensba.fr. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ (in French) Pierre Daix, Pour une histoire culturelle de l'art moderne: de David à Cézanne, Odile Jacob, 1998 (ISBN 978-2-7381-0559-2)
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