Cato of Utica Bidding Farewell to his Son

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Cato of Utica Bidding Farewell to his Son is a 1635 oil on canvas painting, housed at the

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille since 1872.^[1]^[2]

It shows the aftermath of Cato the Younger's defeat by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Thapsus as told in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, with Cato breaking off from reading Plato's Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul to say goodbye to his son just before Cato's suicide.^[1] It was one of nine works commissioned by Louis Phélypeaux, Seigneur of La Vrillière for the gilded gallery at his new hôtel de La Vrillière in Paris.

References

^ ^a ^b "Les Adieux de Caton d'Utique à son fils". musees.marseille.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-03.
^ "Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille rendu aux Marseillais". Médiaterranée (in French). 2014-03-03. Retrieved 2023-11-03.

External links

(in French) Catalogue entry

Paintings

Saint Joseph's Dream (c. 1600–1650)
Moonlit Landscape (c. 1616)
Country Concert (c. 1617)
Et in Arcadia ego (c. 1618–1622)
The Raising of Lazarus (1619)
Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph (1620)
Saint Matthew and the Angel (1621–1622)
Assumption (c. 1623)
The Burial of St. Petronilla (c. 1623)
The Death of Dido (1631)
Venus, Cupid and Mars (1633)
Cato of Utica Bidding Farewell to his Son (1635)
Allegory of Painting and Sculpture (1637)
Saint Jerome (c. 1640–1650)
The Suicide of Cato (1641)
Hersilia Separating Romulus and Tatius (1645)
Annunciation (1646)
Circumcision of Christ (1646)
Christ Crowned with Thorns (1647)
The Persian Sibyl (1647)
The Dying Cleopatra (c. 1648)
Susannah and the Elders (1650)
The Libyan Sibyl (1651)
The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine (1653)
Samson and Delilah (1654)
Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael (1657)

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