Arria and Paetus, 1784 (oil on canvas)

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Image title

Arria and Paetus, 1784 (oil on canvas)

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Artist

Vincent, Francois Andre (1746-1816) / French

Location

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA

Medium

oil on canvas

Date

1784 AD (C18th AD)

Dimensions

101x121.9 cms

Image description

At the moment depicted in this painting, Arria reminds her husband Paetus that the honorable thing for a Roman prisoner to do is to commit suicide. In this obscure story, told in a letter by Pliny the Younger in the early second century, Paetus had joined a failed uprising against the emperor Claudius. He was punished with exile, then brought back to Rome and imprisoned. François-André Vincent has focused on the moment just before Arria demonstrated suicide by plunging a knife into her own breast. Looking straight at her husband, she gestures to her head, emphasizing that Paetus already knows what must be done.

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