id: 165425 accession number: 2007.275 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.275 updated: 2023-08-24 00:19:05.845000 Aglaida and Boniface, c. 1857. Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823–1889). Oil on canvas; unframed: 62.2 x 68 cm (24 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth Ludwig Fennell 2007.275 title: Aglaida and Boniface title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1857 creation date earliest: 1852 creation date latest: 1862 current location: creditline: Bequest of Elizabeth Ludwig Fennell copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823–1889) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 62.2 x 68 cm (24 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: "Alex Cabanel" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Rétrospective Alexandre Cabanel opening date: 2010-07-10T00:00:00 Rétrospective Alexandre Cabanel. Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (organizer) (July 10, 2010-January 1, 2011); Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 50667 Cologne, Germany (February 4-May 15, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (7/10/2010 - 12/5/2010) and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (2/4/2011 - 5/15/2011): "Rétrospective Alexandre Cabanel", ex. cat. no. 26, p. 53. --- PROVENANCE Elizabeth Ludwig Fennell [1917–2007], Cleveland, OH, bequested to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–2007 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2007– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Alexandre Cabanel was a leader of the academic artists who rejected the paintings of Édouard Manet and other "realists" from the Salon of 1863, producing a vast outcry that forced the government to organize the alternative Salon des Refusés. digital description: wall 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. Aglaida also converted to Christianity, gave all her possessions to the poor, and built a church for Boniface's relics. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.275/2007.275_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.275/2007.275_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.275/2007.275_full.tif