Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia
1788 painting by Angelica Kauffman
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia is a 1788 oil on canvas painting by Angelica Kauffman, now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, which it entered in 1902.[1] A preparatory study is in the Royal Collection.[2]
It was commissioned by Stanisław August Poniatowski, who kept it in the Lazienki Palace in Warsaw.[3] It depicts a legend in Macrobius that Octavia the Younger fainted whilst Virgil was reading to her and Augustus a passage about her son Marcellus in Book VI of his Aeneid.
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Angelica Kauffman
- List of paintings
- Portrait of Winckelmann (1764)
- Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus (1774)
- Hector Summoning Paris to Battle (1775)
- Sappho Inspired by Love (1775)
- The Parting of Abelard and Heloise (1770s)
- Jupiter Disguised as Diana Seducing Callisto (c. 1766-1781)
- Cupid and Ganymede (1782)
- Ferdinand I and His Family (1782)
- Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso (1782)
- The Sorrow of Telemachus (1783)
- Self-Portrait (1784)
- Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia (1788)
- Venus Persuading Helen to Love Paris (1790)
- Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1796)
- Cupid and the Graces (1770s)
- Joseph Johann Kauffmann (father)
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