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Hercules and Diomedes

1835

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The story

Hercules and Diomedes failed badly at the Salon of 1835, and Gros, already disillusioned by the rise of Romanticism, brooded over the criticism. In June that year he drowned himself near Meudon, making this vast canvas his tragic last statement.

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Object details

Title: Hercules and Diomedes
Artist: Antoine-Jean Gros
Date: 1835
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Musée des Augustins, Toulouse (RO 112)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0963
Original image: 2233 × 3000 px
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License evidence: See the license

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Antoine-Jean Gros. Hercules and Diomedes. 1835. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse (RO 112). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0963/