File:Charles Le Brun - The Sacrifice of Polyxena.jpg

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Charles Le Brun: The Sacrifice of Polyxena  wikidata:Q19905106 reasonator:Q19905106
Artist
Charles Le Brun (1619–1690)  wikidata:Q271676 s:it:Autore:Charles Le Brun
 
Charles Le Brun
Alternative names
Charles Lebrun
Description French painter, architect, decorator, designer, graphic artist and printmaker
Date of birth/death 24 February 1619 Edit this at Wikidata 12 February 1690
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris (....-1642), Rome (1642-1646), Paris (1646-....), Versailles (1679-1684, 1886)
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creator QS:P170,Q271676
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Title
The Sacrifice of Polyxena Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"The Sacrifice of Polyxena Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"The Sacrifice of Polyxena Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lfr,"Le Sacrifice de Polyxène"
label QS:Lde,"Opfer der Polyxena"
label QS:Lnl,"Her offer van Polyxena"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: As recounted by the Roman poet Ovid, Polyxena is led to her death at the sacrificial altar to appease the ghost of the hero Achilles. Her mother tries to restrain her while the soldier Neoptolemus raises his sword. The infant holding a chest of incense and the austere priest complete this composition.
Date 1647 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions height: 177.8 cm (70 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 131.4 cm (51.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+177.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+131.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
2013.183 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
References
Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/442761
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