Charles Le Brun, 1647 - The Sacrifice of Polyxena - fine art print

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The Sacrifice of Polyxena is a work of art created by the French painter Charles Le Brun in 1647. The version of the artwork was painted with the size: 70 × 51 3/4 in (177,8 × 131,4 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. It forms part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. This classic art artwork, which is in the public domain is provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, 2012 Benefit Fund, and Bequest of Grace Wilkes and Fletcher Fund, by exchange, 2013. Also, the artwork has the creditline: Purchase, 2012 Benefit Fund, and Bequest of Grace Wilkes and Fletcher Fund, by exchange, 2013. Besides this, the alignment is portrait and has a side ratio of 3 : 4, which implies that the length is 25% shorter than the width. The architect, painter, decorator Charles Le Brun was a European artist, whose artistic style can be attributed mainly to Baroque. The painter lived for 71 years - born in the year 1619 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and passed away in 1690.

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As recounted by the Roman poet Ovid (43 B.C.–A.D. 17/18), the compliant Polyxena is led to her death at the sacrificial altar to appease the ghost of the hero Achilles. Her mother tries to restrain her while the soldier Neoptolemus raises his sword. The infant holding a chest of incense and the austere priest complete this beautifully choreographed composition, which was painted the year following Le Brun’s return from Rome. The artist became the official painter to Louis XIV and a leading figure in the academy. He later wrote a treatise on expressions and this enormously influential focus of his art is well in evidence in this early masterpiece.

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