Virgil reading The Aeneid before Augustus, Livia and Octavia
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Ingres was commissioned in 1811 by the French governor of Rome, General Miollis, a wealthy patron of the arts, to depict this event for his own residence, the villa Aldobrandini.[3] The painting was delivered the next year. Sometime after 1835, Ingres repurchased it and made extensive modifications to the composition.[4] Ingres's modifications included changes to the architectural setting and the addition of the figures of Agrippa and Gaius Maecenas at the far right.[2] He also added canvas to the top edge to convert the composition to a vertical format, but was dissatisfied with the result and removed the addition.[2] Ingres bequeathed the painting, which remained unfinished at his death in 1867, to the city of Toulouse.[3]
Over the course of 53 years, Ingres revisited this scene from antiquity in over 100 drawings and watercolours and three oil paintings. One of these paintings, a three-figure fragment cut from an abandoned version, is in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels.[4]
In 1825 he made a chalk drawing in vertical format as a model for a reproductive engraving made by Pradier in 1832.[5] In the drawing and the print, a sculpture of Marcellus stands behind and above the four central figures.[6] In 1865, Ingres painted a third version in oil (Philadelphia, La Salle University Art Museum) by painting over a copy of the Pradier print.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Livia, and Octavia". Retrieved July 20, 2021.
- ^ ISBN 0-9612276-0-5
- ^ OCLC 170576
- ^ ISBN 0-9612276-0-5
- ISBN 0-9612276-0-5
- ISBN 0-9612276-0-5
- ISBN 0-9612276-0-5
