Art Institute of Chicago
Creusa Pleads with Aeneas as He Leaves for War
Jean Michel Moreau
- Date
- 1803
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on cream wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Moreau’s Creusa Pleads with Aeneas depicts the moment in the Trojan War when Aeneas must decide whether to continue to defend Troy or save his family from certain death. This was a final preparatory drawing for an engraving, which would appear in the book of a French translation of Virgil’s Aeneid published in 1804. The inscription’s Latin text is spoken by Aeneas’s wife, Creusa: “If you are going out to die, take us to face it with you.”
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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