Jean Michel Moreau
French, 1741-1814
Creusa Pleads with Aeneas as He Leaves for War
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Jean Michel Moreau
French, 1741-18141803
Creusa Pleads with Aeneas as He Leaves for War
Jean Michel Moreau French, 1741-1814 →pen and ink drawingsprints and drawing
Date
1803
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 22.6 × 15.5 cm (8 15/16 × 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 23.1 cm (12 11/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Robert I. and Leah C. Hamman and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hixon Glore Funds
Moreau’s Creusa Pleads with Aeneas depicts the moment in the Trojan War when Aeneas must decide whether to continue to defend Troy or save his family from certain death. This was a final preparatory drawing for an engraving, which would appear in the book of a French translation of Virgil’s Aeneid published in 1804. The inscription’s Latin text is spoken by Aeneas’s wife, Creusa: “If you are going out to die, take us to face it with you.”
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