drawing
- Museum number
- 2003,0601.20
- Description
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Sardanapalus after Delacroix; nude bearded man reclining on green bed surrounded by five nude women fawning over him. 1973
Gouache and charcoal
- Production date
- 1973
- Dimensions
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Height: 374 millimetres
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Width: 560 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Delacroix's famous Romantic painting in the Musée du Louvre in Paris depicts the legendary Assyrian tyrant king, shortly before his death, coolly observing from his bed the destruction of his worldly goods, including his voluptuous slave women. Here Hilton ironically projects himself as Sardanapalus but naked and without possessions and surrounded by nude women attempting to revive him.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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ND, James Hyman Fine Art, Roger Hilton
2003-4 Dec-April, BM, Three Great Gifts: The David Brown Bequest
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Death of Sardanapalus
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2003,0601.20
