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Cleopatra
Lawrence Alma-Tadema1875
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Besides Helen of Troy, no woman has enjoyed such fame for her beauty as the last Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. Having no portrait to work from Alma-Tadema apparently based this image on an antique bust of the Queen’s mother. The oval frame (suggesting a spy-hole through which the spectator is invited to peer) is decorated with its own suitably mysterious Egyptian motifs.
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Details
- Title: Cleopatra
- Creator: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- Date Created: 1875
- Physical Dimensions: 54.6 x 66.7 cm sight; 73.5 x 85.8 x 6.0 cm frame
- Type: Painting
- Rights: Gift of Sir Herbert Thompson 1920
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Signature & Date: Signed and dated l.l., brown paint "L Alma-Tadema op CXLVI".
- Artist Country: England, Netherlands
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