File:Hector Leroux--Messalina--1868.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionHector Leroux--Messalina--1868.jpg |
English: Louis Hector Leroux, Messaline à Suburre (Messalina in the Suburra), 1868, private collection. Shown at the Paris Salon of 1868, no. 1571.
The painting is reproduced and identified in Gohel (1988), p. 19 and pp. 53-54, catalog no. 31: "This hitherto unidentified work is probably the painting exhibited at the Salon of 1868. The subject, borrowed from Juvenal's Satires, refers to a cliché of academic painting, the decadence of the manners of the Roman Empire. While a servant knocks discreetly on the door, the empress, her head bowed, waits on the threshold of a house of prostitution, unambiguously designated by the inscription Dordalus Leno on the wall. The house next door is owned by a midwife: Erotium obstetrix." The image reproduced by Gohel appears to be noticeably brighter and cleaner than this image, from the auction of the painting at Osenat, Fontainebleau, in June 2021. |
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Source | https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/hector-leroux-1829-1900-femmes-en-conversation-h.-186-c-f2d4cb693e?objectID=162566397 |
Author | Hector Leroux |
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