Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius

Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius is an 1844 painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. Multiple versions of the painting are known to exist, the best-known of which is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. A preliminary sketch by Delacroix is also kept at the museum. The work was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1845. The painting depicts the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius on his deathbed, as he prepares to give his son Commodus over to his councilors and officers. The work is exemplary of Delacroix's embrace of more austere subject matter, and it is representative of his increased attachment to the classical tradition. Delacroix had a complicated relationship with the work, as demonstrated in the writings of his journal and in his management of the painting's exhibitions and sale.

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