Death of Sardanapalus

The Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) is an 1827 oil painting on canvas by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. A smaller replica he made in 1844 is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is a work of Romanticism based on the tale of Sardanapalus, a king of Assyria, from Greek historian Diodorus Siculus's library. It uses rich, vivid and warm colours and broad brushstrokes, was inspired by Lord Byron's play Sardanapalus (1821) and inspired a Hector Berlioz cantata, Sardanapale (1830), and an unfinished Franz Liszt opera, Sardanapalo (1845–1852).

About the painting

Particulars

In the same room · Salle 700, Aile Denon, Niveau 1, Musée du Louvre

Yes, receiving visitors

In the catalog

Sources

Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters

Still Life with Dahlias, Zinnias, Hollyhocks and Plums

The Abduction of Rebecca

Sunset

Liberty Leading the People

Anatomical Studies of Legs

Deux études de costumes souliotes

The Barque of Dante

Liberty Leading the People, second quarter of the 19th century (1830)

The Raft of the Medusa, first quarter of the 19th century (1818–1819)

Le naufrage de Don Juan, second quarter of the 19th century (1840)

Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople, second quarter of the 19th century (1840)

The Women of Algiers, second quarter of the 19th century (1834)

Jeune Tigre jouant avec sa mère, dit aussi Étude de deux tigres, second quarter of the 19th century (1830)

The Massacre at Chios, first quarter of the 19th century (1824)

The Barque of Dante, first quarter of the 19th century (1822)