Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.
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Oil on panel, framed in the antique style – late 19th century.

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19th century
Rome and ancient Greece
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    Small oil painting on panel based on the work by Charles-François Jalabert (1819–1901), *Horace, Virgil, and Varius at Maecenas’s House*, currently on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes.

    Presented in a charming wooden frame with gilded stucco.

    French work from the late 19th century.

    Unsigned.

     

    Dimensions of the painting alone: 11.8 x 17 cm.

    Dimensions with frame: 21.5 x 27 cm.

     

    (Yellowed varnish, a few holes, in need of restoration).

     

    The classical scene depicts the classical poet Virgil (on the left) reading his Georgics, accompanied by Horace to his left, Varius in the background, and Maecenas, Virgil’s patron, on the right, in a landscaped setting representing the garden of his villa on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. The work illustrates the famous “Circle of Maecenas,” a wealthy advisor to Emperor Augustus and patron of the arts.

     

    This painting, the original of which was painted by Jalabert in 1846 while he was in Rome, was a huge success at the 1847 Salon. It helped cement in the collective imagination the image of the “golden intellectual life” of Antiquity, a vision that greatly appealed to the cultured bourgeoisie of the 19th century.

     

    Far from being merely a historical scene, the work is a celebration of Humanism. It shows that the strength of a civilization lies not only in its military conquests (even though Augustus’s reign was marked by the Pax Romana), but in its capacity to produce thought and beauty.

     

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    Condition To be restored
    Style Rome and ancient Greece (Paintings Genre scenes, Nudes of Rome and ancient Greece Style)
    Period 19th century (Paintings Genre scenes, Nudes 19th century)
    Country of origin France
    Internal reference 1735385
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    Location 75008, Paris, France
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