The Intervention of the Sabine Women
- The Intervention of the Sabine Women
"The Intervention of the Sabine Women" is a 1799 painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David.
History
The work was considered when Jacques-Louis David was imprisoned in the Luxembourg Palce in 1795; he hesitated between representing either this subject or that of Homer reciting his verses to the Greeks. He finally chose to make a canvas representing the Sabine women interposing themselves to separate the Romans and Sabines, as a 'sequel' to the painting by Poussin The Rape of the Sabine Women. Its realization took him nearly four years. In 1799 he exhibited at the Louvre in the old architecture firm. Despite the pay of its exhibition, Sabines attracted a large number of visitors until 1805. After the expulsion of artists including David from the Louvre, the picture could be found in the ancient church of Cluny, which he used as a workshop. In 1819 he sold the Sabines and his Léonidas at Thermopylae to the Royal Museums for 10,000 francs. First hung at the Palais du Luxembourg, the canvas returned to the Louvre in 1826 after the death of the painter.
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