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King Candaules of Lydia Showing his Wife to Gyges
Boasting of his wife’s beauty, the Greek king Candaules secretly showed his naked wife to his courtier Gyges. This is the moment that the painting captures, but the scene has been relocated to a seventeenth-century milieu instead of Antiquity. The queen looks at us in a way that can be interpreted as both provocative and triumphant, as if to suggest the continuation of the story: in collusion with…
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Provenance
- Donated by count Axel Bielke 1872
Identifier
- NM 1159
- 18162
Extent
- Mått 193 x 157 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:04.619Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:26:35.264Z