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Patroclus

Jacques-Louis David

1780

Public domainThis image is free to download, share and reuse. The license is recorded as "Public domain" by Wikimedia Commons. See the evidence.

The story

David made this life-size male nude as a boarder at the Villa Medici in Rome, a year after painting a companion study known as Hector. Both academies cast fallen heroes of the Trojan War, and this one was given to the museum in Cherbourg in 1835.

Source, utpictura18.univ-amu.fr

Object details

Title: Patroclus
Artist: Jacques-Louis David
Date: 1780
Culture: French
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Musée Thomas-Henry, Cherbourg (835.102)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0977
Original image: 2291 × 1619 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Jacques-Louis David. Patroclus. 1780. Musée Thomas-Henry, Cherbourg (835.102). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0977/

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