Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, 1796 - Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great - fine art print

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This 18th century piece of art was made by the French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes. The work of art was painted with the size: 16 9/16 × 35 7/8 in (42 × 91,1 cm) and was painted with the technique oil on canvas. Moveover, the artwork belongs to the art collection of Art Institute Chicago. This classic art public domain masterpiece is provided with courtesy of Art Institute Chicago. In addition, the work of art has the creditline: Restricted gift of Mrs. Harold T. Martin. Besides, the alignment is landscape and has a ratio of 2 : 1, which implies that the length is two times longer than the width.

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This landscape and its companion piece, Mount Athos Carved as a Monument to Alexander the Great, reflect the late-18th-century enthusiasm for the antique, as well as the cult of sensibility that made the tomb in a landscape a favored subject for art in this period. Here Alexander, who overthrew the Persian Empire, arrives at the tomb of its founder, Cyrus the Great (590/580–c. 529 B.C.), only to find that it has been desecrated. In choosing the subjects of this pair of moralizing landscapes, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes was doubtless suggesting the transitory nature of empire and of life itself.