17th c.／Oil on canvas
28.2 x 44.9 cm
Permanent Exhibition: From the Renaissance to the 20th Century – 500 Years of Western Paintings
Exhibition period：Saturday April 12～Sunday June 22, 2025
Permanent Exhibition Gallery 2 in the New Wingof Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Permanent Exhibition: From the Renaissance to the 20th Century – 500 Years of Western Paintings
Exhibition period: Saturday July 12～Monday September 15, 2025
Permanent Exhibition Gallery 2 in the New Wing of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
SUMMARY
There are many different opinions about the subject matter and painter of this painting. It is inferred that the subject matter is Dido, the queen of Carthage, who falls in love with Aeneas but gets her heart broken in the Greek mythology Aeneis; Polia sitting in the ruins in the Hyperotomachia Poliphil; or maybe others. It is considered that the figure in this work is inspired by the frontispiece of Icones et Segmenta (1645) by François Perrier. The frontispiece depicts a scene in which Minerva, the goddess of war, reaches out her hand to Victoria, the goddess of victory who lies on the site surrounded by broken columns in the Roman ruins which were destroyed by the invasion of barbarians. This painting was attributed originally to Nicolas Poussin and later to Eustache Le Sueur. In recent studies, Pierre Rosenberg speculated that it was attributed to Jean Lemaire. Indeed, its Poussin-like style indicates that this painting was not made by the hands of Le Sueur.
ARTIST
Circle of Eustache Le Sueur
1616/17-1655
List of artworks by the same artist
INFORMATION
Saturday, January 12 - Saturday, May 4, 2019
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Shanghai PowerLong Museum (Shanghai, China)
Tuesday, October 23 - Sunday, December 23, 2018
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tsinghua University Art Museum (Beijing, China)
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