About this artwork
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Status
- On View, Gallery 218
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Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
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Artist
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar
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Title
- Virgil Reading the "Aeneid" to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1790
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Medium
- Oil on canvas
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed on Virgil's scroll: TU MAR[CELLUS ERIS]
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Dimensions
- 111.1 × 142.6 cm (43 3/4 × 56 1/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Wirt D. Walker Fund
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Reference Number
- 1963.258
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/17161/manifest.json
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