The dominant feature of this painting is the bed on which a nude prostrates herself and beseeches the apathetic title character, who watches as his worldly possessions are destroyed.  
This work was one of thirteen its creator painted for the 1827 Salon, and its original title was Massacre Number Two.  A broken elephant tusk near the center of the canvas represents title character's impotence.  A woman covers her face with a dress while a tanned man falls on his sword.  On the bottom left a muscular African reigns in a horse.  The dominant feature of this painting is the bed on which a nude prostrates herself and beseeches the apathetic title character, who watches as his worldly possessions are destroyed.  Based on a poem by Byron, FTP, identify this painting by Eug?e Delacroix.
This work was one of thirteen its creator painted for the 1827 Salon, and its original title was Massacre Number Two.  
The Death of Sardanapalus