Cleopatra and Octavian by Louis Gauffier — large framed print

Cleopatra and Octavian

Louis Gauffier, 1787

Roman Empire

Louis Gauffier painted Cleopatra and Octavian in 1787, while at the French Academy in Rome. The future emperor Augustus stands in a classical hall as the queen of Egypt pleads before him after the death of Antony. Gauffier was a French Neoclassical painter.

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