Death of Sardanapalus
Eugène Delacroix · 1827
The story
The Death of Sardanapalus is an 1827 oil painting on canvas by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. A smaller replica he made in 1844 is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is a work of Romanticism based on the tale of Sardanapalus, a king of Assyria, from Greek historian Diodorus Siculus's library. It uses rich, vivid and warm colours and broad brushstrokes, was inspired by Lord Byron's play Sardanapalus (1821) and inspired a Hector Berlioz cantata, Sardanapale (1830), and an unfinished Franz Liszt opera, Sardanapalo (1845–1852).
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Date
- 1827
- Collection
- Louvre, Paris, France
- Movement
- Romanticism
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 392 × 496 cm
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