Julius Sabinus en Epponina met hun twee kinderen als gevangenen door Rome gevoerd, Blaise Nicolas Lesueur, 1726 - 1783

Identification

Title(s)

Julius Sabinus en Epponina met hun twee kinderen als gevangenen door Rome gevoerd

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1951-23

Inscriptions / marks

annotation, verso, lower left, pen and brown ink: ‘No 1929’ (in an old handwriting)
annotation, verso, lower left, pencil: ‘Le Sueur / te Berlin’
collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Blaise Nicolas Lesueur

Dating

1726 - 1783

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 300 mm × width 450 mm

Explanatory note

Pendant van "Epponina 's vergeefse smeekbede aan Vespasianus om genade voor Sabinus" (RP-T-1951-24).

Subject

What

Julius Sabinus, a Batavian chieftain, is dragged before Vespasian; his wife Eponina ttries in vain to raise the emperor's pity by showing him their twins

Where

Rome

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Gift of C.P. van Eeghen, Amsterdam

Acquisition

gift 1951

Copyright

Public domain

Relations

Documentation

Van Watteau tot Ingres, Robert-Jan A. te Rijdt, cat.nr. 56
Franse tekenkunst van de 18e eeuw uit Nederlandse verzamelingen, Jan Wolter Niemeijer, p. 62, cat.nr. 67

Persistent URL

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