The Intervention of the Sabine Women
Jacques-Louis David, 1799
Sabine wives throw themselves between Roman and Sabine armies — neoclassical empire founding at full wall scale.
About this work
Jacques-Louis David's The Intervention of the Sabine Women, completed in 1799, shows a legendary episode after the abduction of the Sabine women by the founders of Rome. Hersilia, wife of Romulus and daughter of the Sabine leader Titus Tatius, throws herself between her husband and her father and puts her babies between them; Romulus, spear raised, hesitates. Behind them rises the Tarpeian Rock, from which Roman traitors were thrown, and the towering walls have been read as an allusion to the Bastille. David began planning the picture while imprisoned in the Luxembourg Palace in 1795, as a supporter of Robespierre after the Terror. Work on the canvas began in 1796, after his estranged wife visited him in jail, and its theme of love prevailing over conflict was also taken as a plea for the French to reunite after the bloodshed of the Revolution. He worked on it for nearly four years, partly in a temporary studio in the Louvre, and blended the faces of aristocratic models with those of classical sculpture. The painting is in the Louvre.
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Print facts
- Native resolution
- 9,837 × 7,396 px
- Sharp at 150 ppi up to
- 65 × 49 in
- Sizes
- Small (20 × 15 in) · $100 · 492 ppi
Medium (24 × 18 in) · $150 · 410 ppi
Large (36 × 27 in) · $300 · 273 ppi - Price includes
- Frame and US shipping · 14–21 days · 30-day returns
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Here. The Intervention of the Sabine Women is available as a framed print in three sizes: Small (20 × 15 in) for $100, Medium (24 × 18 in) for $150 and Large (36 × 27 in) for $300. Prices include the frame and US shipping; delivery takes 14–21 days, with 30-day returns.
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The file is 9,837 × 7,396 px, so every size is sharp: even Large (36 × 27 in) prints at 273 ppi. Choose Large (36 × 27 in) for a large wall; Small (20 × 15 in) suits a narrower space.
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Yes. The Intervention of the Sabine Women is in the public domain: its copyright, if it ever had one, expired long ago. In the United States a faithful photograph of a public-domain painting does not create a new copyright (Bridgeman v. Corel, 1999), so the image can be printed and sold freely.
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