The Generosity of Scipio by Jean Restout, 1728, framed print

The Generosity of Scipio

Jean Restout, 1728

Roman Empire

Jean Restout painted Scipio Africanus returning a captured young woman to her betrothed in 1728. Livy tells how Scipio, after taking New Carthage in Spain, refused the prize and gave her ransom to the couple as a wedding gift. The painting is in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.

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