File:Antoine-Denis Chaudet - Aristomenes Mourning the Death of Socrates from the Bewitchment of Meroë (f - 2008.374 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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Aristomenes Mourning the Death of Socrates from the Bewitchment of Meroë (from Book 1 of Apuleius, "The Golden Ass")
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Antoine-Denis Chaudet |
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Aristomenes Mourning the Death of Socrates from the Bewitchment of Meroë (from Book 1 of Apuleius, "The Golden Ass") |
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| Object type | drawing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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This scene represents the end of a complex episode from the Roman writer Apuleius's (2nd century ad) story The Golden Ass. Aristomenes narrates a tale to the book's main character, Lucius, about a friend named Socrates, whom he meets during his travels. After a disastrous affair with a witch named Meroë, Socrates dies from a wound she inflicts to his throat, and the scene shown here is the moment just after his death. Chaudet is mainly known as a sculptor, but he also designed a number of book illustrations for the most important publisher of the neoclassic period, the Didot firm. Although we know he did a number of drawings for The Golden Ass, the project was never realized as a book. |
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| Date | 1795 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Brush and black and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Sheet: 27.9 x 21.3 cm (11 x 8 3/8 in.); Image: 19.8 x 10.3 cm (7 13/16 x 4 1/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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2008.374 |
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| Place of creation | France, 18th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Bequest of Muriel Butkin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.374 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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