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Alexander the Great Giving Campaspe to Apelles

1822

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The story

Pliny the Elder tells how Alexander the Great asked Apelles to paint his favorite mistress, Campaspe, and the unfinished portrait revealed that painter and sitter had secretly fallen in love. Meynier shows the king giving her to Apelles with his blessing.

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Object details

Title: Alexander the Great Giving Campaspe to Apelles
Artist: Charles Meynier
Date: 1822
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (D 822.1.1)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.1116
Original image: 2992 × 2374 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

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Charles Meynier. Alexander the Great Giving Campaspe to Apelles. 1822. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (D 822.1.1). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea1116/