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Study for "Dante and the Spirits of Great Men"
Eugène Delacroix French
Not on view
For the cupola of the Senate Library at the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris, Delacroix designed a unified composition bringing together "a sort of Elysium" of great men from antiquity. This sheet contains studies of a model in three different poses, which Delacroix incorporated separately as the figures of Cato (arm raised), Socrates (seated), and Hannibal (arm across the chest); each one appears in a different section of the circular composition.
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