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Polyxena Sacrificed on Achilles' Pyre, 1875

  • oil paint, panel
  • 77.5 x 57.5 cm
  • Inv. 1877-E

Public Domain

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Artist

Joseph Stallaert RKD
Merchtem 1825 - Ixelles 1903
painters (artists)AAT

Title Polyxena Sacrificed on Achilles' Pyre
Date 1875
Period 19th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signature and year bottom left on tree trunk: Jh. Stallaert / 1875.
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1877-E
Acquisition credit purchase
salon
Ghent
1877
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/203/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300417629 mythologies (religious concept) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 31AA236 lying figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
41A431 rugs (textiles) Iconclass
41A771 container of metal: bucket, can, canister, drum, tin, etc. Iconclass
41B4 on fire, ablaze Iconclass
45B the soldier; the soldier's life Iconclass
61E(TROY) names of cities and villages (TROY) Iconclass
83(HOMER, Iliad) (scenes from) specific works of literature (HOMER, Iliad) Iconclass
92 gods ~ classical mythology Iconclass
94H2 the fall of Troy; Troy burning Iconclass
94H243 Polyxena is sacrificed by Neoptolemus on Achilles' tomb Iconclass
95A(ACHILLES) (story of) Achilles Iconclass
95A(NEOPTOLEMUS) (story of) Neoptolemus, son of Achilles Iconclass
95B(POLYXENA) Polyxena Iconclass
School / Style historicism (theory) AAT
academicism AAT
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 136)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 311 (ill.))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021
De vrienden rond het museum : Het Gentse kunstnetwerk in relatie tot de collectieuitbreiding van het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (1870-1914) / Julie Landuyt. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 92)
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