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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth Ludwig Fennell, 2007.275", "current_location": null, "title": "Aglaida and Boniface", "creation_date": "c. 1857", "creation_date_earliest": 1852, "creation_date_latest": 1862, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "France, 19th century" ], "technique": "oil on canvas", "support_materials": [], "department": "Modern European Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "Unframed: 62.2 x 68 cm (24 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.)", "dimensions": { "unframed": { "height": 0.622, "height_inch": 24, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.68, "width_inch": 26, "width_inch_fraction": 0.75 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Signed lower right: \"Alex Cabanel\" ", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 218951, "title": "R\u00e9trospective Alexandre Cabanel", "description": "R\u00e9trospective Alexandre Cabanel. Mus\u00e9e Fabre, Montpellier, France (organizer) (July 10, 2010-January 1, 2011); Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 50667 Cologne, Germany (February 4-May 15, 2011).", "opening_date": "2010-07-10T00:00:00" } ], "legacy": [ { "description": "Mus\u00e9e Fabre, Montpellier, France (7/10/2010 - 12/5/2010) and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (2/4/2011 - 5/15/2011): \"R\u00e9trospective Alexandre Cabanel\", ex. cat. no. 26, p. 53.", "opening_date": "2010-07-10T00:00:00" } ] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Elizabeth Ludwig Fennell [1917\u20132007], Cleveland, OH, bequested to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20132007", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2007\u2013", "sortorder": 2 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Alexandre Cabanel was a leader of the academic artists who rejected the paintings of \u00c9douard Manet and other \"realists\" from the Salon of 1863, producing a vast outcry that forced the government to organize the alternative Salon des Refus\u00e9s.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The French painter Alexandre Cabanel was a favorite of Emperor Napoleon III and a leader of the academic style that emphasized precise drawing and smoothly modeled forms. This painting depicts the wealthy Roman woman Aglaida and her concubine slave Boniface, here living as pagan sinners in Rome around 290 CE. On a trip to Tarsus on the Anatolian coast, Boniface converted to Christianity and was tortured and beheaded. 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