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Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners ("Cléopâtre essayant des poisons sur des condamnés à mort") is an 1887 painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It is held by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. It shows Cleopatra VII sitting at a banquet observing the effects of poisons on prisoners condemned to death, as described in Mark Antony's "Plutarch's Lives". It is considered a canonical work of 19th-century orientalism and has been used as a model for plays
1883), Private collection
- "Ruth glanant dans les champs de Booz", (1886), Musée Garinet, Châlons-en-Champagne
- "Lady Curzon" (1887), Kedleston Hall, England,
- Preparatory study of Cleopatra for "Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners", Musée des Beaux-Arts, Béziers
- "Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners" (1887), Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
- "Eve After the Fall", Private Collection