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Year
  
1867

Artist
  
Jean-Léon Gérôme

Created
  
1867

Period
  
Academic art

Medium
  
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
  
2.16 m x 3.68 m

Media
  
Oil paint

Genre
  
History painting

The Death of Caesar

Location
  
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Similar
  
Jean-Léon Gérôme artwork, Academic art artwork, History paintings

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The Death of Caesar (French: La Mort de César) is an 1867 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts the moment after the assassination of Julius Caesar, when the jubilant conspirators are walking away from Caesar's dead body at the Theatre of Pompey, on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC. The painting is kept at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Provenance

  • M. J. Allard
  • John Taylor Johnston [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • John Taylor Johnston Sale, New York, 1876, no. 188
  • John Jacob Astor [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Boussod Veladon et Cie [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • James B. Haggin et al. Sale, New York, April 5, 1917, no. 148
  • 1917: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters

    • References

    The Death of Caesar Wikipedia
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