This work was submitted to the same Salon as the artist's The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero and was marked by the same strong diagonal as Christ on the Lake of Gennesaret.
The artist's friend Achille Deveria did contemperaneous drawings of scenes from the same literary source. This work was submitted to the same Salon as the artist's The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero and was marked by the same strong diagonal as Christ on the Lake of Gennesaret. The pastel study Crouching Woman was used for the nude woman in the right foreground whose elbow is grabbed by a man wielding a blade. This painting depicts a man yanking on a white horse's rein in the bottom left, while the center features a large couch whose corners are golden (*) elephant heads. Upon that bed is the relaxed title figure and two fallen concubines as soldiers invade, an embellished version of a scene from a Byron work. For 10 points, name this painting that depicts the imminent demise of an Assyrian king, a work of Eugene Delacroix.
The artist's friend Achille Deveria did contemperaneous drawings of scenes from the same literary source.
{Death} of {Sardanapulus}