..The poet Virgil reads to the Emperor Augustus and his sister Octavia a passage from the Aeneid , in praise of Octavia's dead son Marcellus . She swoons with grief . The subject is from The Life of Virgil by Donatus ...Tallasson was born in Bordeaux . He trained in Paris as a pupil of Vien , a neo-classical artist , who also taught Jacques-Louis David. Tallasson became a member of the Academy in 1784 . He painted mostly subject pictures based on ancient history and regularly exhibited at the Salon in Paris.
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012
'Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia ' Jean-Joseph Tallasson ( French 1745-1809) Oil on canvas , circa 1787. The National Gallery , London .
..The poet Virgil reads to the Emperor Augustus and his sister Octavia a passage from the Aeneid , in praise of Octavia's dead son Marcellus . She swoons with grief . The subject is from The Life of Virgil by Donatus ...Tallasson was born in Bordeaux . He trained in Paris as a pupil of Vien , a neo-classical artist , who also taught Jacques-Louis David. Tallasson became a member of the Academy in 1784 . He painted mostly subject pictures based on ancient history and regularly exhibited at the Salon in Paris.
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