Dido Excoriates Aeneas, from Book IV of the "Aeneid"

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Dido Excoriates Aeneas, from Book IV of the "Aeneid"

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Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune

French Artist · 1741–1814

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A wigmaker's son, Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune was attuned to fashion early on. Not surprisingly, then, his best-known works were illustrations for a costume book published in 1777 and 1783. *Monuments de costume* *physique et morale* remains the most complete record of the taste and the manners of French nobility in Moreau's day. Moreau first studied with a painter and engraver, following him to S

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Date
1803
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brown wash
Culture
French
Department
Drawings
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
6b80cac2-fbb5-4217-8fd2-09b5bf6f0603

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After enduring an epic voyage, Aeneas was shipwrecked near Carthage on the coast of North Africa, where Queen Dido received him. Although the two fell in love, Aeneas could not remain with the queen. Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune illustrated the moment after Aeneas announced that he must continue on his journey. Lashing out in rage, Dido hurls abuse at him. Moreau le jeune made this drawing as a highly finished model for an engraving by Jean-Batiste Simonet for the frontispiece of the second volume of a French translation of Virgil's *Aeneid*, published in Paris in 1804.

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