Octavian vor der verzweifelnden Kleopatra

Title

Octavian vor der verzweifelnden Kleopatra

Draughtsman

• Gottlieb Welté

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Late Baroque
• classicism

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• gouache
• paper

Technique

• brush drawing
• white heightening

Geographic Reference

• German

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• portrayal of a historical event

Persons Shown

• Cleopatra VII (queen of Egypt)
• Augustus (Roman emperor)

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Cassius Dio
• William Shakespeare

Illustrated Passage

• Plutarch: Vitae parallelae, Antonius, 83
• Cassius Dio: Römische Geschichte, 51, 11, 6-13, 3
• William Shakespeare: Antonius und Kleopatra, 5. Akt, 2. Szene

Primary

• 98C(CLEOPATRA)68 death of Cleopatra: she commits suicide by holding to her breast an asp, which she has taken from a basket of figs
• 98B(MARK ANTONY)6 suffering, misfortune of Mark Antony
• 45M2 soldiers and civilians
• 41AA11 palace - AA - civic architecture: inside