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Antiochus and Stratonice

c. 1838

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

(French, 1780–1867)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
oil on linen
Measurements
Framed: 74.5 x 91.5 x 11 cm (29 5/16 x 36 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 48.1 x 63.9 cm (18 15/16 x 25 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1966.13
Public Domain
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Location
202 French Neoclassical Decorative Arts
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Description

Struck by a mysterious illness, Antiochus lies in bed near death. His grieving father, who has recently taken Stratonice as his wife, summons a doctor. Noticing that the sight of the young woman quickens Antiochus’s pulse and that passion causes his sickness, the doctor describes the youth’s predicament to his father, who selflessly offers Stratonice to his son. The subject, both a love story and an example of parental devotion, enjoyed considerable popularity well into the 1800s.
Horizontally-oriented oil painting depicting, on the right, Antiochus laying under red bed-sheets while his father stands over him in a cream tunic. This scene mostly cast in shadow, a diagonal light focus on the left side of the painting, where Stratonice, a woman wearing a light-pink tunic leans against on of the room's grey columns, chin resting on the back of her right hand as she looks down. All have light skin tones.

Antiochus and Stratonice

c. 1838

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

(French, 1780–1867)
France, 19th century

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