Sabines also entitled the Intervention of Sabines is a table painted by Jacques-Louis David between 1795 and 1799.
History
Work is considered when David is imprisoned with the Luxembourg in 1795, it still hesitates between representing this subject or that of Homère reciting its worms with the Greeks . It finally chooses to make a fabric representing Sabines interposing to separate the Romans from Sabins, desired like one following the table of Poussin the removal of Sabines . Its realization takes to him nearly four years. At the end of 1799 it exposes it to the Louvre in the former cabinet of architecture. In spite of the character paying of its exhibition, Sabines attracts a great number of visitors until 1805. After the expulsion of the artists of the Louvre whose David, the table finds himself in the old church of Cluny which is used to him as workshop. In 1819 it yields Sabines and its during Léonidas to Thermopyles to the royal museums for 10.000 francs. Initially hung to the Palate of Luxembourg, the fabric finds the Louvre in 1826 after the death of the painter.
Description
It should well be specified that the subject does not represent the Enlèvement of Sabines by the Romans, topic present at Poussin or Giambologna, but an episode, evoked by Plutarque, which occurs three years later when Sabines stop the combat between Sabins carried out by Tatius, and Romans led by Romulus. Hersilie, in the center of the fabric the tended arms, interposes between her Romulus husband on the right, who is on the point of launching his javelin against Tatius the father of Hersilie, which is protected with its shield. Dealing with the lances of Sabins woman her child raises, another clutches himself with the leg of Tatius, a third introduces his offspring to the feet of Romulus. To the extreme right-hand side, a rider gives its saber in the sleeve.
See too
- Set of themes: Removal of Sabines
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