艺术流派
Unknown Movement
创作媒介
Unknown Medium
作品信息
艺术家
Alexandre Cabanel
创作年代
1887
地点
Antwerp, Belgium
作品描述
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners is an 1887 painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It is held by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. It shows Cleopatra VII reclining on a banquette and observing the effects of poisons on prisoners condemned to death, as described in Mark Antony's Plutarch's Lives. It is considered a canonical work of 19th-century orientalism and has been used as a model for plays and early films.