Sujet
Aristomenes Mourning the Death of Socrates from the Bewitchment of Meroë..."The Golden Ass"), 1795. Creator: Antoine-Denis Chaudet (French, 1763-1810).
Légende
Aristomenes Mourning the Death of Socrates from the Bewitchment of Meroë (from Book 1 of Apuleius, "The Golden Ass"), 1795. This scene represents the end of a complex episode from the Roman writer Apuleius's (2nd century ad) story The Golden Ass. Aristomenes narrates a tale to the book's main character, Lucius, about a friend named Socrates, whom he meets during his travels. After a disastrous affair with a witch named Meroë, Socrates dies from a wound she inflicts to his throat, and the scene shown here is the moment just after his death. Chaudet is mainly known as a sculptor, but he also designed a number of book illustrations for the most important publisher of the neoclassic period, the Didot firm. Although we know he did a number of drawings for The Golden Ass, the project was never realized as a book.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F70_014
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
55,7Mo (3,7Mo) / 33,0cm x 42,3cm / 3895 x 5000 (300dpi)