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Cleopatra

1674 to 1675

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The story

After Gennari presented Charles II with a Diana and Endymion in 1674, the king commissioned this Cleopatra, rising bare from her bed as the asp bites, and both hung in his apartments. It passed to James II and probably went with him into exile in 1688.

Source, Yale Center for British Art

Object details

Title: Cleopatra
Artist: Benedetto Gennari
Date: 1674 to 1675
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (B2004.1)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0910
Original image: 2503 × 3000 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Benedetto Gennari. Cleopatra. 1674 to 1675. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (B2004.1). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0910/