Sujet

The Death of Sophonisbe, Queen of Numidia, 1816. Creator: Benjamin Wolf.

Légende

The Death of Sophonisbe, Queen of Numidia, 1816. Masinissa wished to claim Sophonisba, a Carthaginian noblewoman, as his wife, but when Scipio demanded that she go to Rome as a captive, Masinissa gave her poison so that she might escape the fate of a prisoner.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23A67_246

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

159,1Mo (12,5Mo) / 72,5cm x 55,0cm / 8558 x 6498 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe city female women woman people male man men painting monarch guy museum Netherlands Dutch color dramatic poison royal death tribe location century upset royalty Carthage concept suicide oil Painting Colour 19th century nobility aristocracy aristocrat nineteenth century Ancient city Carthaginian noblewoman Rijksmuseum sovereign TGN Queen Numidian Sophonisba Oil on canvas Sofines Sophonisbe Painting Heritage Art committing suicide Low Countries 19th-century Benjamin Wolf Benjamin Wolff Wolf Benjamin Wolff Benjamin Sophoniba